slimnastic

slimnastic

English

Etymology

Back-formation from slimnastics.

Adjective

slimnastic (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to slimnastics.
   • 1959, Jewish Community Center Program Aids

     ... expensive men's health rooms and women's slimnastic salons, while junior and sis come to the Center's game rooms.

   • 1980, Donna Schuman, Judy Roche, Matinee (→ISBN)

     Then a nasal voice came over the loudspeaker: "The slimnastic disco class meets in the Exercise Room in five minutes. Five minutes till the slimnastic disco class begins."

   • 1981, Jay Sanford Shivers, Joseph W. Halper, The Crisis in Urban Recreational Services, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press (→ISBN), page 311:

     The women's slimnastic group would have high acceptability while the youth weight- lifting group might not. It is a matter of selecting the items which have the greatest amount of common support and implementing them first. After this base is ...

   • 1988, James Allen Wood, Speaking effectively, Random House Trade (→ISBN)

     ... supporting material for only one main part of the speech, as when a speaker demonstrated traditional stances and strokes as part of a speech on samurai swords. However, some speeches — on how to do a series of slimnastic exercises for ...

   • 1996, Dvora Yanow, How Does a Policy Mean?: Interpreting Policy and Organizational Actions, Georgetown University Press (→ISBN), page 105:

     At Yahud [a development town], the women of Savyon [a small, fashionable, and well-to-do town] come for the slimnastic classes.