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From fit +‎ -ness. First attested in the 16th century, with the physical sense from 1935.

• IPA(key): /ˈfɪt.nəs/
• Rhymes: -ɪtnəs

fitness (usually uncountable, plural fitnesses)

1. The condition of being fit, suitable or appropriate.
   Antonym: unfitness
   • 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 5:
     Having introduced my two characters separately, let me present them together. Why not? He, young, wealthy, honorable; she also young, also intelligent — why not bring them together? There is an eternal fitness in all things, and nothing more so than in the case of man and woman.
   • 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
     That's chiefly why they're coming; I want you to meet them here and then tell me frankly what you think of their fitness for whatever we decide on doing.
2. The cultivation of an attractive and/or healthy physique.
   • 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport‎[1]:
     Carroll has been edging slowly towards full fitness after his expensive arrival from Newcastle United and his partnership with £23m Luis Suarez showed rich promise as Liverpool controlled affairs from start to finish.
3. (evolutionary theory) An organism's or species' degree of success in finding a mate and producing offspring.
   Synonyms: suitability, capability
4. (UK, slang) The condition of being attractive, fanciable or beautiful.
   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:beautiful

• aquafitness

• aquatic fitness

• biofitness

• fitfluencer

• fitness ball

• fitness center

• fitness centre

• fitness club

• fitness landscape

• fitness model

• fitnesswear

• fitnessy

• health and fitness age

• hyperfitness

• inclusive fitness

• pole fitness

• warrant of fitness

• water fitness

• Finnish: sopivuus (fi)

• French: condition physique

• German: Fitness (de) f

• Macedonian: фитнес m (fitnes)

• Polish: sprawność fizyczna f

• Russian: приго́дность (ru) f (prigódnostʹ), го́дность (ru) f (gódnostʹ)

• Serbo-Croatian: dobra kondicija f

• Turkish:
  Ottoman Turkish: طباق (tıbâk)

• Arabic: صِحَّة (ar) f (ṣiḥḥa) (health), فيت نيس m (fīt nīs)

• Bulgarian: фитнес m (fitnes)

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 健康 (zh) (jiànkāng) (health), 健身 (zh) (jiànshēn)

• Danish: egnethed c

• Finnish: kuntoilu (fi), fitness (fi)

• French: fitness (fr) m

• German: Fitness (de) f

• Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐌸𐍂𐍉𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 f (usþrōþeins)

• Hebrew: כֹּשֶׁר (he) m (kósher), כֹּשֶׁר גּוּפָנִי (he) (kósher gufaní)

• Indonesian: kebugaran (id)

• Irish: oiriúint f, oiriúnacht f

• Japanese: 健康 (ja) (けんこう, kenkō) (health), フィットネス (ja) (fitonesu)

• Latvian: vingrums m, fitness m

• Malay: kecergasan (ms)

• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: egnethet, (dialectal) eignahet f or m

• Polish: fitness (pl) m

• Portuguese: fitness (pt) m

• Russian: хоро́шая физи́ческая фо́рма f (xoróšaja fizíčeskaja fórma), фи́тнес (ru) m (fítnɛs), здоро́вье (ru) n (zdoróvʹje) (health)

• Serbo-Croatian: fitnes m

• Spanish: (Argentina) ámbito (es) m, fitness m

degree of success in finding a mate and producing offspring

• Indonesian: kecocokan (id)

• Bulgarian: годност (bg) f (godnost), способност (bg) f (sposobnost)

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 适合 (zh) (shìhé)

• Czech: vhodnost (cs) f

• Finnish: kunto (fi), kyky (fi)

• German: Tauglichkeit (de) f, Zweckmäßigkeit (de) f

• Japanese: 適当 (ja) (てきとう, tekitō)

• Polish: sprawność (pl) f

• Russian: приго́дность (ru) f (prigódnostʹ), го́дность (ru) f (gódnostʹ)

• Serbo-Croatian: kondicija (sh) f

• Spanish: nivel físico m

• Ukrainian: прида́тність f (prydátnistʹ)

• infests, stefins

Unadapted borrowing from English fitness.

• IPA(key): /ˈfitnesː/, [ˈfit̪n̪e̞s̠ː]
• Rhymes: -itnesː
• Syllabification(key): fit‧ness
• Hyphenation(key): fit‧ness

fitness

1. fitness (a type of fitness sport)

• fitness-urheilu

• “fitness”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Unadapted borrowing from English fitness.

• IPA(key): /fit.nɛs/

fitness m (uncountable)

1. fitness (condition of being fit)

• “fitness”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from fitness.

• IPA(key): /ˈfit.nɛs/
• Rhymes: -itnɛs
• Syllabification: fit‧ness

fitness m inan

1. (uncountable, exercise) aerobics or similar physical exercises done under the supervision of an instructor at a special club
2. (countable, exercise) special club where such exercises are done

• “fitness”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “fitness”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[4] (in Polish)
• fitness in PWN's encyclopedia

Unadapted borrowing from English fitness.

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfi.t͡ʃi.nes/, /ˈfit͡ʃ.nes/

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfi.t͡ʃi.nes/, /ˈfit͡ʃ.nes/

  • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfit͡ʃ.nes/, /ˈfi.t͡ʃi.nes/

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈfit.nɛs/

• Hyphenation: fit‧ness

fitness m (uncountable)

1. fitness (cultivation of an attractive and healthy physique)
2. (evolutionary theory) fitness (degree of success in finding a mate and producing offspring)
   Synonyms: aptidão, valor adaptativo

fitness (invariable)

1. (Brazil, informal) athletic, fit (physically active)
   Synonym: fit
   Ela está bem fitness! ― She looks so fit!

• “fitness”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Unadapted borrowing from English fitness.

fitness n (uncountable)

1. fitness

• IPA(key): /ˈfidnes/ [ˈfið̞.nes]
• Rhymes: -idnes
• Syllabification: fit‧ness

fitness m (uncountable)

1. fitness (cultivation of an attractive and healthy physique)

• “fitness”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025