gym bunny

English

Noun

gym bunny (plural gym bunnies)

1. (colloquial, bodybuilding) A person who spends a large amount of time working out at a gym and who wants to improve their physique.
   • 2002, Dan Anderson, Sex Tips for Gay Guys‎^[1], →ISBN, pages 129, 130:

     Unlike sex with a Leatherman or a Sugar Daddy, when you have sex with a Gym Bunny, you will probably have to keep reminding yourself that there are actually two people present. …The GB spends just about all of his spare time sculpting his ever-more-fabulous body, and just about all of his spare income on ever-more-skimpy gym outfits.

   • 2006, Catherine Coulter, Born to Be Wild‎^[2], →ISBN, page 243:

     "...this scrap heap of a gym bunny you don't want to sit too close to before she showers is a TV goddess?"

   • 2006, Tim Edwards, Cultures of Masculinity‎^[3], →ISBN, page 137:

     Thus the lithe and slightly feminised John Travolta of Saturday Night Fever is transformed into the pumping, grinding-body-obsessed gym bunny of Staying Alive.

   • 2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times‎^[4]:

     Being a gym bunny is simply unbecoming. Not as unbecoming, perhaps, as the bicycle bunnies, with their helmet hair, their strangely padded Lycras that suggest a degree of sexual depravity and those ridiculous clacky shoes. But we’re not very pleasing to behold.

Related terms

• gym rat