fitspo

English

Etymology

fit + -spo.

Noun

fitspo (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Short for fitspiration.
    • 2013, book review from Elle, quoted in Alexandra Heminsley, Running Like a Girl: Notes on Learning to Run, Scribner (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
      It's packed with get-off-your-butt fitspo from the author's journey from 1-miler to marathoner.
    • 2013, Jennifer J. Thomas, Jenni Schaefer, Almost Anorexic: Is My (or My Loved One's) Relationship with Food a Problem?, Hazelden, →ISBN, page 137:
      Both thinspo and fitspo sites do one thing very well: make people feel bad about themselves.
    • 2013 October 14, Harriet Williamson, “Beware of the dangerous fetishising of fitness on social media”, in The Telegraph:
      The idea that ‘fitspo’ images have anything to do with health or fitness is entirely spurious and the use of my picture is proof of this.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fitspo.

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