fitspo en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From fit + -spo.
Meanings
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(abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, uncountable) Clipping of fitspiration.
alt of fitspiration
Both thinspo and fitspo sites do one thing very well: make people feel bad about themselves.
2013, Jennifer J. Thomas, Jenni Schaefer, Almost Anorexic: Is My (or My Loved One's) Relationship with Food a Problem?, Hazelden, →ISBN, page 137:It's packed with get-off-your-butt fitspo from the author's journey from 1-miler to marathoner.
2013, book review from Elle, quoted in Alexandra Heminsley, Running Like a Girl: Notes on Learning to Run, Scribner (2013), unnumbered pageThe 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.
2013 October 14, Harriet Williamson, “Beware of the dangerous fetishising of fitness on social media”, in The Telegraph: