athletize

present singular third person athletizes · participle present athletizing · participle past athletized · past athletized

1. intransitiveTo get athletic or act in an athletic way.

   You won't athletize without regular exercise.

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   I neither rode recklessly, flirted'desperately, carried clothes imperially, turned men's heads, broke their hearts, sang divinely, athletized, literatized, antagonized.

   1895, Godey's Magazine - Volume 131, page 384

   We must remember that they are athletes, now athletes do not 'sleep': they are forever athletizing: awake or dreaming.

   1991, Fidelis Odun Balogun, Tradition and Modernity in the African Short Story

   Glenn needed to use his strength- get verticle and jumpshoot- to out athletize Mullin, but only really did this once.

   1996 November 15, Mac Brent Milleur, “Same script, different ending”, in alt.sports.basketball.nba.mil-bucks (Usenet)

2. transitiveTo make athletic.

   Months of training finally athletized my skinny body.

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   To do this rightly, a certain and well-chosen series of exercises, calculated to athletize the Intellect, will require to be undertaken, and in its accomplishment certain qualities of thought will be elicited, produced, or won and nourished.

   1859, The British Controversialist, and Literary Magazine, page 296

   But if woman is still to be regarded as the mother of our race, it's high time to ask if this over-athletized framework of bone and sinew, with its muscle-bound torso and its over-tensioned nerves and its stultified glands, is equipped for its final job.

   1926, Arthur Stringer, Cristina and I

   Sometimes I think that disco and the red hot chili peppers ruined funk music by 1) forcing a great, raw & organic funky music into an electronic context, and 2) making every jock-rock idiot bass player think that funk is about athletizing music and slapping and popping a whole lot.

   1999 January 6, colin odden, “A drummer that NO ONE can copy!”, in rec.music.makers.percussion (Usenet)

   My apologies to Albert for de-athletizing him. Who am I to make such a decision?

   2009 December 17, Jonathan P., “My apologies”, in pcclass (Usenet)