Meanings
plural leotards
- A one-piece skintight garment with or without sleeves and without legs (often worn by gymnasts, acrobats, wrestlers, female swimmers, etc.)
Tomorrow is the day. Marie makes her first trip out of this notebook and into the world. I'm off to buy a leotard.
1963 May, Gloria Steinem, “A Bunny's Tale”, in Show Magazine, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2017, page 99
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna tight-fitting garment of stretchy material that covers the body from the shoulders to the thighs (and may have long sleeves or legs reaching down to the ankles); worn by ballet dancers and acrobats for practice or performance
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Named after French acrobat Jules Léotard (1838–1870).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian трико
- трико (triko)skin-tight one piece suit of clothing
Catalan mallot
- mallotskin-tight one piece suit of clothing
Chinese Mandarin 緊身衣 /紧身衣
- 緊身衣 /紧身衣 (jǐnshēnyī)skin-tight one piece suit of clothing
Czech body
- bodyskin-tight one piece suit of clothing
Finnish trikoot, voimistelupuku
- trikootskin-tight one piece suit of clothing
- voimistelupukuskin-tight one piece suit of clothing
French justaucorps
- justaucorpsskin-tight one piece suit of clothing
German Turntrikot, Turnanzug
- Turntrikotskin-tight one piece suit of clothing
- Turnanzugskin-tight one piece suit of clothing
- Gymnastiktrikotskin-tight one piece suit of clothing
- Gymnastikanzugskin-tight one piece suit of clothing
- Bodyskin-tight one piece suit of clothing
- Leotardskin-tight one piece suit of clothing
Greek κορμάκι
- κορμάκι (kormáki)skin-tight one piece suit of clothing
Icelandic leikfimibolur
- leikfimibolurskin-tight one piece suit of clothing
Irish léatar
- léatarskin-tight one piece suit of clothing
Italian body, calzamaglia
- bodyskin-tight one piece suit of clothing
- calzamagliaskin-tight one piece suit of clothing
Japanese レオタード
- レオタード (reotādo)skin-tight one piece suit of clothing
Polish trykot
- trykotskin-tight one piece suit of clothing
Portuguese malha
- malhaskin-tight one piece suit of clothing
Russian леота́рд, трико́
- леота́рд (leotárd)skin-tight one piece suit of clothing
- трико́ (trikó)skin-tight one piece suit of clothing
- па́чка (páčka)skin-tight one piece suit of clothing
Spanish leotardo
- leotardoskin-tight one piece suit of clothing
Swedish dansdräkt, leotard
- dansdräktskin-tight one piece suit of clothing
- leotardskin-tight one piece suit of clothing
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Anagrams
Cite this entry
leotard. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/leotard
“leotard.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/leotard. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “leotard,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/leotard.
Source: leotard on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.