gymbot
n.— «I suspect we’re learning that the body is a machine—not a sensual, flexible collective of organs and muscle and bone and skin, but a machine we can “work out” with.…Even if the metaphor has some merit, biologically, it certainly loses a great deal of soul in the gym-bot environment.» —“Exercise: The Horror, the Horror” by Carol Burbank Freedom of Expression (Maryland) July 30, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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