sports bra

English

Noun

sports bra (plural sports bras)

1. A type of bra that is more supportive than an everyday bra, worn when practising sports or other physical activities.
   • 2001 May 22, Wednesday, “Re: 'There are only 500 REAL anime fans in the UK'”, in uk.media.animation.anime‎^[1] (Usenet), message-ID <-6y*A5OWo@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>:

     secure a uniboob-generating, restrain-and-flatten style sports bra

   • 2015 October 29, Rose Eveleth, “Why Are Sports Bras So Terrible?”, in Racked:

     Finally, in 1977 […] the sports bra as we know it was invented […] That first sports bra was simply two jockstraps sewn together.

Translations

bra worn when playing various sports

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 運動胸衣／运动胸衣 (yùndòng xiōngyī), 運動文胸／运动文胸 (yùndòng wénxiōng), 運動內衣／运动内衣 (yùndòng nèiyī)

• Finnish: urheilurintaliivit pl
• German: Sport-BH m
• Japanese: スポーツブラ (supōtsubura), スポブラ (supobura)
• Swedish: sportbehå (sv) c, sport-bh (sv) c

Anagrams

• sports bar