What's the difference between naturist and nudist?

Naturist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who believes in, or conforms to, the theory of naturism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The naturist groups that once gathered outside courts to cheer him are long gone.
  • (2) I’m not a naturist, but our family is certainly not prim when it comes to nudity, and I have authored a guidebook about wild swimming .
  • (3) There are sites for those explicitly looking for marriage, or just a casual hook-up; sites for those over 60, hippies, pagans, naturists – almost anything you can think of.
  • (4) Naturists seem to have chosen the latter for their exhibitionism, though they already have a semi-official strip of sand near Stafilos.
  • (5) Like many eastern Algarve beaches, Barril is naturist-friendly.
  • (6) A 10-minute drive away is the dramatic, naturist beach Playa de los Muertos.
  • (7) There are a few naturist stretches (far away from the sand yachting), and a tremendous feeling of space.
  • (8) He was also involved with an avant-garde group, the Neo-Naturists (started by his then girlfriend, Jennifer Binnie ), who would paint their bodies and exhibit themselves at nightclubs and galleries.
  • (9) By his court hearing, he'd been adopted by various naturist groups.

Nudist


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A third Canadian has reportedly been charged in connection with the nudist stunt.
  • (2) The writer's joking offer of "nudist" as an analogy is telling.
  • (3) The term "foodist" is actually much older, used from the late 19th century for hucksters selling fad diets (which is quite apt); and as late as 1987 one New York Times writer proposed it semi-seriously as a positive description, to replace the unlovely "gastronaut": "In the tradition of nudist, philanthropist and Buddhist, may I suggest 'foodist', one who is enthusiastic about good eating?"
  • (4) George Orwell berated them as "fruit juice drinkers, nudists, sex maniacs, Quakers, nature-cure quacks, pacifists and feminists", while others have, outrageously, labelled them Guardian writers and readers.
  • (5) He warned: "It risks it being used for those who seek to protest peacefully, noisy children in the street, street preachers, canvassers, carol singers, trick-or-treaters, church bell ringers, clay pigeon shooters, nudists.
  • (6) Years ago we’d just made ourself comfortable on a stretch of black sand when our then six-year old son asked, “Why is no one wearing any clothes?” It turned out we were on the German nudist beach.
  • (7) In Britain, the sin is similar to visiting a nudist beach with your clothes on.
  • (8) Before the bright young things sported tans, they were the preserve of consumptives, the malnourished, health obsessives and nudists.
  • (9) Even the beach is something of a challenge, with its particular stretches for nudists, gays, couples-at-it and peeping Toms.
  • (10) Bryan Forbes (A Shot in the Dark, 1964) Bryan Forbes Photograph: The Ronald Grant Archive In the second, arguably the best, of Blake Edwards's "Pink Panther" comedies, the British actor-writer-director Bryan Forbes plays the guard at a French nudist camp that Peter Sellers's Inspector Clouseau and Elke Sommer try to get into.
  • (11) My husband and I moved to north Goa eight years ago, though I first visited with my family 30 years ago, when I was four; we drove down from Bombay in the car, my brother seeing his first nudist on the beach, his mind blown.
  • (12) The most infamous of these is Gunnison Beach, one of the few legal nudist beaches on the eastern seaboard.
  • (13) The first nudist clubs were called Sun Clubs, dedicated to the great and healthy outdoors.
  • (14) Peers voted by 306 to 178, majority 128, against the plans amid fears that noisy children, carol singers and nudists could fall victim to the new injunctions .

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