swimming trunks

1. 1.

   swimsuit worn by men while swimming

   Synonymsbathing trunks

   Broaderswimsuit

   plural

Questions about swimming trunks

What does swimming trunks mean?

swimming trunks means "swimsuit worn by men while swimming".

What is another word for swimming trunks?

Close synonyms include bathing trunks. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is swimming trunks a common word?

swimming trunks is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.