fitnessfit‧ness /ˈfɪtnəs/ ●●○ noun [uncountable] 
an exercise programme to improve your fitness Running marathons requires a high level of physical fitness.2the degree to which someone or something is suitable or good enough for a particular situation or purposefitness for He questioned McNeil’s fitness for high office.fitness to do something The doctor will first determine your fitness to receive the anaesthetic.COLLOCATIONSverbsimprove your fitness· You can improve your fitness by going for a daily run.increase your fitness· Aerobic exercise, such as jogging or cycling, will increase your fitness.work on your fitness (=try to improve your fitness)· He's working on his fitness in preparation for the New York marathon.maintain your fitness (=keep your body at a good level of fitness)· She worked hard to maintain her fitness while pregnant.adjectivesphysical fitness (=how healthy your body is)· You need a reasonable level of physical fitness for this job.general fitness· Swimming is good for your mobility and general fitness.personal fitness· The gym offers personal fitness training by professionals.fitness + NOUNfitness levels· His fitness levels are as good as someone much younger.a fitness programme British English, a fitness program American English:· Get working on a fitness programme to suit you.fitness training· The players have to do a lot of fitness training.a fitness instructor· He was offered work as a fitness instructor.a fitness room· Other facilities in the hotel include a fitness room and a sauna.fitness equipment· We sell a range of exercise and fitness equipment for the home.a fitness fanatic informal (=someone who likes exercising a lot)· My son's something of a fitness fanatic, and works out every day.a fitness test (=an examination to see if a sports player is fully fit)· Chris Pike is facing a fitness test before tomorrow's match.phraseshealth and fitness· books about health and fitness
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Join a health club to improve your fitness.
- Experience, training and fitness sets hotshots apart from so-called Type 2 crews, the infantry of firefighting.
- Greater levels of fitness and better team organisation are two of the more obvious modern achievements.
- I liked him instantly, especially as he was a fitness fanatic and his body was solid and taut.
- Let's hope he is able to get in some training at his field hospital so that he at least stays in touch with his fitness.
- Strategies that maximize the individual fitness component may be termed selfish.
- The vital combination of technique, fitness and mental strength had all noticeably progressed.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs The jogging craze began in the 1970s. a fitness fanatic a fitness freak
· You can improve your fitness by going for a daily run.
· Aerobic exercise, such as jogging or cycling, will increase your fitness.
(=try to improve your fitness)· He's working on his fitness in preparation for the New York marathon.
(=keep your body at a good level of fitness)· She worked hard to maintain her fitness while pregnant.
adjectives (=how healthy your body is)· You need a reasonable level of physical fitness for this job.
· Swimming is good for your mobility and general fitness.
· The gym offers personal fitness training by professionals.
fitness + NOUN· His fitness levels are as good as someone much younger.
British English, a fitness program American English:· Get working on a fitness programme to suit you.
· The players have to do a lot of fitness training.
· He was offered work as a fitness instructor.
· Other facilities in the hotel include a fitness room and a sauna.
· We sell a range of exercise and fitness equipment for the home.
informal (=someone who likes exercising a lot)· My son's something of a fitness fanatic, and works out every day.
(=an examination to see if a sports player is fully fit)· Chris Pike is facing a fitness test before tomorrow's match.
phrases· books about health and fitness
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The jogging craze began in the 1970s. a fitness fanatic a fitness freak· Her fitness level is better than that of most 20-year-olds.
· You need to work on your physical fitness.
· Walcott will have a fitness test this morning to decide whether he can play.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· If restoring himself to full driving fitness was one thing, Ferrari was no help on the psychological front.
· Questions also cover much broader aspects of general health and fitness.· Begin exercises to increase general fitness, start gentle swimming.· Stamina, flexibility, sharp reflexes and general physical fitness are required to perform the fighting movements with ease.· Heartwatch offers an assessment of a person's risk from heart disease and general health and fitness checks.· The question begs: is there, after all these centuries, an absolute best exercise for general fitness?· Training was geared more to general fitness than particular skills, and centred on running and skipping to improve speed and stamina.· Before operation all patients underwent general physical examination and electrocardiographic and lung function studies to determine their general fitness for operation.· It is an excellent way to exercise at home for general fitness and as a preparation for skiing.
· To what extent its reproductive strategies emphasize such altruism depends on the pay-off of such strategies in terms of inclusive fitness.· Those that increase inclusive fitness through behaviour facilitating reproduction by relatives are nepotistic.· Both, however, exist to maximize the inclusive fitness of breeding in their exponents.· All individuals are closely related and the behaviour probably maintains a high degree of inclusive fitness for all parties.· Finally, the superego again acts as regulator over the tendency towards maximum inclusive fitness.
· Lancashire will make a late fitness check on Orrell hooker Neil Hitchen, who is recovering from a neck injury.· Striker Paul Rideout faces a late fitness test on a shoulder injury.· Wimbledon v Oldham Warren Barton faces a late fitness test.· But Durie picked up a knee injury and faces a late fitness test before today's game against Everton.· Southend await a late fitness test on Andy Ansah before naming today's side.
· Bodifit kicks off! NEW fitness club Bodifit kicked off last week with an official opening by the Glentoran football squad.
· A surge of participation in evening classes and sports is as much about a search for companionship as mental and physical fitness.· Too many hours in front of the computer screen can destroy physical fitness.· Teeth Dental health is an important ingredient of total physical fitness.· Stamina, flexibility, sharp reflexes and general physical fitness are required to perform the fighting movements with ease.· Then there was the small matter of my physical fitness.· Once we started trekking we soon discovered that mental attitude and camaraderie were far more important than physical fitness.· Nupa emphasized physical fitness and organized discipline.· Or work on your physical fitness?
NOUN· Two full size soccer pitches, and inside a fully equipped fitness centre complement the gymnasium and provide a comprehensive community facility.· Leogang also has a super leisure and fitness centre, with a heated open-air swimming pool.· Amenities include health and fitness centre with squash courts and indoor pool.· There's also a good restaurant, bar and rooftop fitness centre with sauna, solarium and jacuzzi.· The Hotel's fitness centre offers extensive facilities. 319 bedrooms, all ensuite, 24 hour room service.· The hotel fitness centre is definitely worth a visit to enjoy a Roman-style steam bath, sauna, swimming-pool and whirlpool.
· A Northallerton Town football player has been signed up to improve fitness facilities at Hambleton leisure centres.· Another snack bar serves the fifth floor fitness facility.· Lakeside leisure complex with pool and extensive health and fitness facilities.· Athletic Club were only a fitness facility it would be the best Downtown and one of the best in the entire city.· Regular travellers committed to such programmes are likely to choose hotels providing appropriate health and fitness facilities.
· Arkwright Myers, a fifty-year-old fitness freak, introduces himself as the owner.
· Again, the amount of time you run depends on your current fitness level.· So far, no other study linking obesity to ill health has factored in the subjects' fitness level.· The main physical benefit is improving the fitness level as measured by the maximum oxygen uptake.· Thirty-six percent of doctors said they were dissatisfied with their overall fitness level.· Admittedly, these were early days in the season, before the tough training schedule at Richmond had beefed up fitness levels.· Maintain your fitness level during this period but cut out sparring.· What it fails to say is that it is a high intensity workout which does not suit all fitness levels.· Even if it did, how can players keep those fitness levels up?
· Get working on a fitness programme to suit you - it will alleviate that post-winter sluggish feeling too.· At last you are ready to get properly started on your own personal health and fitness programme.· Within the next few months he hopes to introduce an individual fitness programme for people using the centres.· Others crouched on their haunches and kicked out their back legs behind them, like men carrying out a complex fitness programme.· That's why I believe my New Body Plan is the most effective diet and fitness programme ever.· It can be dangerous to over-exert yourself greatly at the beginning of your fitness programme.· Last year Ruth taught primary-school teachers undergoing a government-sponsored fitness programme.· If the insides of the thighs are stretching, then you are attempting this exercise too early in your fitness programme.
· There's also a fitness room, sauna and turkish steam bath.· Other facilities include a bar, an excellent restaurant, swimming pool, fitness room, sauna, solarium & skittle alley.· A sauna is available free twice a week and there is also a fitness room.· Tennis courts, a fitness room, sauna, massage and beauty parlour are all available at a charge payable locally.· Swimming: Large pool with waterfall, fountain, showers, sauna, whirlpool and fitness room.· There's a fitness room, sauna and a solarium.· There's a reception area and bar, comfortable dining room, plus a fitness room, sauna and indoor swimming-pool.· Warrender Sports Centre runs induction classes for newcomers to the fitness room.
· A fitness test this morning will decide which of the two starts.· Town could have some team problems tomorrow; keeper Nicky Hammond is facing a fitness test.· During the two weeks of glorious sunshine, we all did our annual weapons, first aid and fitness tests.· He faces a fitness test today on the hamstring strain that has kept him out for two matches.· Villa give Dalian Atkinson fitness test on a stomach strain.· Nicky Summerbee has come through a fitness test on a leg strain.· And all this bollocks about waiting for Pearce to fail the fitness test.
· Derrick took up fitness training just 13 years ago after his jewellery importing business folded.· Some are veritable campuses where students can learn about logarithms as well as lobs, fine arts as well a s fitness training.· They will have to do a lot of physical fitness training.· To earn it one's sponsor suggested that fitness training should start now.
VERB· Town could have some team problems tomorrow; keeper Nicky Hammond is facing a fitness test.· He faces a fitness test today on the hamstring strain that has kept him out for two matches.· Striker Paul Rideout faces a late fitness test on a shoulder injury.· Wimbledon v Oldham Warren Barton faces a late fitness test.· But Durie picked up a knee injury and faces a late fitness test before today's game against Everton.
· The main physical benefit is improving the fitness level as measured by the maximum oxygen uptake.· Join a health club to improve your fitness and figure. look carefully at your clothes.· A Northallerton Town football player has been signed up to improve fitness facilities at Hambleton leisure centres.· It isn't necessary to run seven days a week to improve fitness.· To succeed again they will have to improve their fitness and concentration, the only flaws in an otherwise faultless game-plan.· They are designed to keep the body supple, develop co-ordination and improve poise and general fitness.· A student undergoes a prolonged period of performing stamina exercises aimed at raising the heart rate and improving overall fitness.
· Begin exercises to increase general fitness, start gentle swimming.
· He was given an ultimatum by Murphy to prove his fitness by Friday but went well in training on Monday.· Recent California proposals attempt to shift the burden to parents to prove their fitness.· The club however are believed to be in no hurry to agree until he proves his fitness.· I believe old Mel played in some pre-season games and proved his fitness??· Stuart Ripley and Andy Payton proved their fitness as second-half substitutes against Brighton.
· Get working on a fitness programme to suit you - it will alleviate that post-winter sluggish feeling too.· About five years ago, when he first learned that he might become ill, Dominic worked with a fitness trainer.· The programme first of all explains how a Bouncer works on fitness in general and in rehabilitation plus other problems such as arthritis.
WORD FAMILYnounfitfittingfitnessfittermisfitadjectivefittedfittingfit ≠ unfitverbfitadverbfittingly
1when you are healthy and strong enough to do hard work or play sports: an exercise programme to improve your fitness Running marathons requires a high level of physical fitness.2the degree to which someone or something is suitable or good enough for a particular situation or purposefitness for He questioned McNeil’s fitness for high office.fitness to do something The doctor will first determine your fitness to receive the anaesthetic.COLLOCATIONSverbsimprove your fitness· You can improve your fitness by going for a daily run.increase your fitness· Aerobic exercise, such as jogging or cycling, will increase your fitness.work on your fitness (=try to improve your fitness)· He's working on his fitness in preparation for the New York marathon.maintain your fitness (=keep your body at a good level of fitness)· She worked hard to maintain her fitness while pregnant.adjectivesphysical fitness (=how healthy your body is)· You need a reasonable level of physical fitness for this job.general fitness· Swimming is good for your mobility and general fitness.personal fitness· The gym offers personal fitness training by professionals.fitness + NOUNfitness levels· His fitness levels are as good as someone much younger.a fitness programme British English, a fitness program American English:· Get working on a fitness programme to suit you.fitness training· The players have to do a lot of fitness training.a fitness instructor· He was offered work as a fitness instructor.a fitness room· Other facilities in the hotel include a fitness room and a sauna.fitness equipment· We sell a range of exercise and fitness equipment for the home.a fitness fanatic informal (=someone who likes exercising a lot)· My son's something of a fitness fanatic, and works out every day.a fitness test (=an examination to see if a sports player is fully fit)· Chris Pike is facing a fitness test before tomorrow's match.phraseshealth and fitness· books about health and fitness- diversity
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