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The body you present, not the one that does the laundry.
means The visible build and shape of a person's body, especially when it's toned, muscled, or otherwise notable.
from Borrowed from French physique, meaning 'physical' or 'bodily,' which traces back to Greek physikos ('natural, pertaining to nature') and physis ('nature, growth'). English picked it up in the 1800s and gave it a subtle twist — shifting from the general French sense of 'the physical' to a specific focus on the body's outward form, especially one shaped by effort at the gym rather than left to nature's own devices.
- origin
- French for physical, borrowed around the 1820s
- fitness term
- competition category judged on symmetry, not strength
- muscle myth
- big muscles can still fail a push-up test
- not synonym
- health and physique often live separate lives