gym bunny

plural gym bunnies

1. colloquialbodybuildingA person who spends a large amount of time working out at a gym and desiring to improve their physique.

   "...this scrap heap of a gym bunny you don't want to sit too close to before she showers is a TV goddess?"

   2006, Catherine Coulter, Born to Be Wild, →ISBN, page 243

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   Unlike sex with a Leatherman or a Sugar Daddy, when you have sex with a Gym Bunny, you will probably have to keep reminding yourself that there are actually two people present. …The GB spends just about all of his spare time sculpting his ever-more-fabulous body, and just about all of his spare income on ever-more-skimpy gym outfits.

   2002, Dan Anderson, Sex Tips for Gay Guys, →ISBN, pages 129, 130

   Thus the lithe and slightly feminised John Travolta of Saturday Night Fever is transformed into the pumping, grinding-body-obsessed gym bunny of Staying Alive.

   2006, Tim Edwards, Cultures of Masculinity, →ISBN, page 137

   Being a gym bunny is simply unbecoming. Not as unbecoming, perhaps, as the bicycle bunnies, with their helmet hair, their strangely padded Lycras that suggest a degree of sexual depravity and those ridiculous clacky shoes. But we’re not very pleasing to behold.

   2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times

   Synonyms: gym rat