sweat trousers

alternative sweat-trousers

1. pluralplural onlyuncommonSynonym of sweatpants.

   I took up wrestling, but I didn’t like having to stay for ten minutes in somebody’s crotch with the same smelly sweatshirts and sweat trousers.

   2017, Jim Korkis, “Hobbies”, in Call Me Walt: Everything You Never Knew About Walt Disney, Theme Park Press, →ISBN, page 93

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   A stiff north wind spoiled any chance for records and Glenn Cunningham, Kansas distance ace, didn’t even take off his sweat trousers to win the mile and 880-yard runs.

   1934 April 15, “Glenn Cunningham, in Sweat Clothes, Runs Slow Mile”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 86, number 222, St. Louis, Mo., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1D, column 2

   Things hadn’t got quite that bad – someone playing a computer game in his room. By himself with the volume on full-whack and his door wide open. Up I got, sweat trousers on and marched to the source of the noise to order a cease fire.

   2013, Jonathan Robinson, “Sunday, November 20ᵗʰ, 2011”, in In It, published 2014, →ISBN

   Synonyms: sweatpants