leotard

English

A gymnast in a sleeveless leotard.

Named after French acrobat Jules Léotard (1838–1870).

leotard (plural leotards)

A one-piece skintight garment with or without sleeves and without legs (often worn by gymnasts, acrobats, wrestlers, female swimmers, etc.)
- 1963 May, Gloria Steinem, “A Bunny's Tale”, in Show Magazine‎, page 99:
  Tomorrow is the day. Marie makes her first trip out of this notebook and into the world. I'm off to buy a leotard.

skin-tight one piece suit of clothing

Bulgarian: трико n (triko)
Catalan: mallot m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 緊身衣／紧身衣 (zh) (jǐnshēnyī)
Czech: body (cs) n
Finnish: trikoot pl, voimistelupuku
French: justaucorps (fr) m
German: Leotard n, Gymnastikanzug m, Turnanzug m
Greek: κορμάκι (el) n (kormáki)
Ido: malyoto (io)
Irish: léatar m
Italian: body (it) m, calzamaglia (it) f
Japanese: レオタード (reotādo)
Polish: trykot m
Portuguese: malha (pt) f, collant (pt) m
Russian: леота́рд (ru) m (leotárd), трико́ (ru) n (trikó), пачка (ru) f (pačka) (in ballet)
Spanish: leotardo (es) m
Swedish: dansdräkt c, leotard c

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