Fitness and Skill

Fitness

Fitness noun - The condition of being sound in body.

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Skill and fitness are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Skill" instead a noun "Fitness".

Nearby Word: fit

Skill noun - Subtle or imaginative ability in inventing, devising, or executing something.

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Fitness and skill are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fitness" instead a noun "Skill".

Nearby Words: skilled, skillfully, skilful, skilly

good	good fitness	good skill
physical	physical fitness	physical skill
better	better fitness	better skill
natural	natural fitness	natural skill
Other adjectives: appropriate, sufficient, actual, extreme, personal, immense.

He eschews physical fitness and outright strength in favor of counter techniques that require outrageous (impossible) amounts of skill to perform.

Source: Weak, but Skilled
In Generation Kill, Evan Wright discusses the emphasis that Marines place on physical fitness and combat skill.

Source: Challenging the Chief
While the skill is certainly there (he was quickly setting some very quick times), the physical fitness required of actual racing wasn't.

Source: Badass Driver

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