athleisurewear

English

Etymology

Blend of athletics +‎ leisurewear, equivalent to athleisure +‎ -wear.

Noun

athleisurewear (uncountable)

1. Casual sports clothing.
   • 1986 May, Jim Chase, Backpacker, page 46:

     The style in “athleisurewear”—those sportsy/outdoorsy-looking slacks, shorts, shirts, and jackets—was the soft, cool feel of all-cotton.

   • 2005, Shelly Branch, Sue Callaway, What Would Jackie Do?, page 60:

     Marketers may call this comfy stuff "athleisurewear," but the boyfriend who spots you on Saturday morning at Whole Foods will be glad to simply call you an ex.

   • 2015 September 28, Vanessa Friedman, “Armani and Missoni: In the Shadow of the Supermoon”, in New York Times‎:

     When you think about it, the Missoni stretch knit was athleisurewear before athleisurewear was invented.

   • 2025 January 27, Lenora Chu, “How Volkswagen slid from German engineering icon to innovation laggard”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

     Three decades of that privileged factory work have given him and his family the perks of a stable, middle-class life: travel abroad, adventure motorcycle trips, a closet full of athleisurewear, a room-by-room renovation of his childhood home where he and his accountant wife now live.