Athletic Bikini

What “Athletic” Means in Swimwear

Athletic in swimwear is a style label — it describes pieces built for and styled around activity and sporty looks. The word can also describe a body type in fitness vocabulary, but on a swimwear page it names the garment’s style, not the wearer. No piece here is made for one body shape; the label sorts the active look.

This collection holds 50 styles from about $17 carrying that style label. The pieces share a sporty vocabulary — bralette tops, rash-guard two-pieces, high-waist crops and athletic shirred cuts — and the pool overlaps the store’s sports bikini collection, which carries the wider active edit.

The Athletic Style Range

• Bralette tops: soft-cup tops with a sporty edge
• Rash-guard two-pieces: covered tops paired with bikini bottoms
• High-waist crops: active cuts with fuller bottom coverage
• Athletic shirred cuts: gathered seams in sporty silhouettes

Each reads sporty in a different way — bralettes through their active shape, rash guards through their coverage, high-waist crops through their cut. The listing photo shows which style language each piece speaks.

Athletic vs Sports Bikini

Athletic and sports describe the same active territory, and the collections overlap — this 50-style pool is a focused slice of the store’s 74-style sports bikini collection. The sports page explains the active-wear construction — secure straps, cinch details, chlorine-tolerant fabric. This page reads the athletic label’s own style range across the pieces.

If you are choosing between the two, the sports collection is the wider active edit, and this page the athletic-labeled slice of it — the pieces are close kin, and both pages cross-reference each other.

Choosing an Athletic Bikini

Match the piece to the day. Rash-guard two-pieces suit long sun exposure and active beach days — the covered top handles both. Bralette and high-waist crops balance the sporty look with more conventional swim styling. Athletic shirred cuts carry the look into resort wear.

For actual training and lap swimming, check the construction details — straps, closures and fabric — against the activity, the same way you would with any active suit. The label is a style starting point, not a performance claim.

Sizing and Care

Athletic pieces size by the same chart as the rest of the catalog — match your measurements to the listing. Rash-guard tops run by bust and chest measurements; bralette tops by the soft-cup fit notes in the listing.

Care follows the fabric: rinse after salt or chlorine, wash gentle, dry flat. Rash-guard fabric and athletic knits both keep their stretch longest out of hot dryers.