Bathing suits


Do Americans really call swimming shorts bathing suits or is it just a karate kid/ cobra Kai thing?

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Apparently people in your strange land call bathing suits swimming shorts?

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Good one.
Im refering to Daniel saying all the lads are wearing his bathing suits in season 1 episode 2

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I understood... was just answering in a silly way. Yes, in the U.S. we call whatever you wear to swim a bathing suit. I've never heard them referred to as swimming shorts. Sometimes we might say swimming trunks for a men's suit, or bikini for the two-piece women's suit, but bathing suit is the standard term.

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Yeah it was funny 👍😂

We say swimming trunks or swimming shorts, but bathing suits is more girl swimming wear I think.

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Swimming trunks?
Do you mean budgie smugglers?

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Or Speedos

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Yeah, same thing

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Nut-huggers!

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Banana hammock

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Swimming shorts? That's a funny name! I'd have called them Chazzwazzers.

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"Yes, in the U.S. we call whatever you wear to swim a bathing suit."

Speak for yourself. In my neck of the woods, no one calls a pair of shorts a "bathing suit". They are called "shorts" or, less commonly, "swim trunks". "Bathing suit" refers to what females typically wear when they go swimming. Do a Google image search for bathing suit. How many guys wearing shorts do you see?

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Where do you live?

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Maine.

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Of course! Everything is different up there. :)

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When I was a kid in southern California in the '60s and '70s men's swimwear was always referred to as "swimming trunks", and women's swimwear was always called a "bathing suit" or a "bikini" if it was two-piece. Today I usually hear "bathing suit" used to refer to both men's and women's swimwear. I don't hear "swimming trunks" much anymore.

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Same.

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I've always heard swim trunks or sometimes swim shorts. Bathing suits is still used, though. It's more of a catch-all term.

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Board shorts is another one, at least in Hawaii.

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QFT.

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Nah. Nice to see you're still triggered. Need a safe space?

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... do you know what QFT stands for?

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You gonna tell mommy I hurt your feelings?

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lol

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No, its a plot hole

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Doesn't really effect the plot.

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It could NEVER be a plot hole since it is 100% accurate. Here in America the terms, bathing suit, swim suit, swim trunks, are all very common. It is definitely not a Cobra Kai thing.

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Most people call them bathing-suits or swim-trunks. But my father, who was from Ireland, always called them swim-togs.

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