sportswear
スポーツウェア
解説 Definition
sportswear は「スポーツウェア、運動用の衣服」という意味です。日本語のカタカナ語とほぼ同じですが、英語では運動時に着る機能的な服全般を指し、上下の服やジャケットなども含みます。
Sportswear is clothing designed or commonly worn for exercise, sports, and active leisure. It includes functional garments such as training tops, shorts, tracksuits, leggings, and lightweight jackets, and is generally used as an uncountable noun.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
sports「スポーツ」＋wear「身に着ける物」という透明な複合語で、運動用の衣服全般を表します。英語では通常、数えない名詞として some sportswear や a sportswear brand と使い、個々の服なら sports clothes や items of sportswear とします。gym、runners、comfortable との組み合わせで覚えます。
The word divides neatly into sports and wear: it is clothing to wear for sports or active movement. Picture choosing comfortable, flexible clothes before going to the gym or running. In English, sportswear is usually uncountable, so say some new sportswear or an item of sportswear, not a sportswear for one garment. Common combinations include comfortable sportswear, performance sportswear, a sportswear brand, and sportswear for runners. Depending on context, the category may also include casual clothing influenced by athletic design.
例文
She bought new sportswear for the gym.
彼女はジム用に新しいスポーツウェアを買いました。
This shop sells comfortable sportswear for runners.
この店ではランナー向けの着心地のよいスポーツウェアを売っています。
Good sportswear can help you move more easily.
よいスポーツウェアは体を動かしやすくしてくれます。
sportswear の類義語・関連語
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sportswear の語源・成り立ち Etymology
sportswear は sports「スポーツ」+ wear「衣服・着るもの」の複合語で、比較的新しい英語です。sport は古フランス語 desport「気晴らし」、wear は古英語 werian「身につける」にさかのぼり、「運動や余暇のための服」という成り立ちがそのまま意味になっています。
Sportswear is an English compound of sports and wear. Sport developed from disport, borrowed through Old French desport with the sense of recreation or amusement. Wear is inherited from Old English werian, “to clothe or put on.” The compound arose for clothing associated with sport, exercise, and active leisure, and its meaning remains directly understandable from those two elements.
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