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slimnastic en · ADJ

Etymology

Back-formation from slimnastics.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to slimnastics.
   • 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 ... 1981, Jay Sanford Shivers, Joseph W. Halper, The Crisis in Urban Recreational Services, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, →ISBN, page 311:
   • ... 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 ... 1988, James Allen Wood, Speaking effectively, Random House Trade, →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." 1980, Donna Schuman, Judy Roche, Matinee, →ISBN:
   • At Yahud [a development town], the women of Savyon [a small, fashionable, and well-to-do town] come for the slimnastic classes. 1996, Dvora Yanow, How Does a Policy Mean?: Interpreting Policy and Organizational Actions, Georgetown University Press, →ISBN, page 105:
   • ... expensive men's health rooms and women's slimnastic salons, while junior and sis come to the Center's game rooms. 1959, Jewish Community Center Program Aids: