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Sportswear
clothing, including footwear, worn for sport or physical exercise / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sportswear is clothing, including footwear, worn for playing sports or to exercise.
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Sportswear includes shorts, tracksuits, T-shirts, polo shirts and trainers. It also includes some underwear, such as the jockstrap. Sportswear is also often worn as casual fashion clothing.
Sports athletes wear a combination of different items of clothing such as sport shoes, pants and shirts. Some athletes wear personal armour such as helmets or American football body armour.