athletize

Verb

athletize (third-person singular simple present athletizes, present participle athletizing, simple past and past participle athletized)

1. (intransitive) To get athletic or act in an athletic way.
   • You won't athletize without regular exercise.
   • I neither rode recklessly, flirted'desperately, carried clothes imperially, turned men's heads, broke their hearts, sang divinely, athletized, literatized, antagonized.1895, Godey's Magazine - Volume 131, page 384
2. (transitive) To make athletic.
   • Months of training finally athletized my skinny body.
   • To do this rightly, a certain and well-chosen series of exercises, calculated to athletize the Intellect, will require to be undertaken, and in its accomplishment certain qualities of thought will be elicited, produced, or won and nourished.1859, The British Controversialist, and Literary Magazine, page 296