Definitions

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  • adjective Favouring, or pertaining to, indoor life.

Etymologies

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indoors +‎ -y

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Examples

  • On this trip we traded our usual "indoorsy" lifestyle for biking, hiking, paddle boating and a ziplining tour -- the latter was at the urging of our six-year-old daughter, Simran, who was eager for a higher, longer, faster ziplining rush after falling in love with the beginner's ziplining experience she tried in the Adventure Zone at the base of Blackcomb

    canada.com Top Stories 2010

  • For a real "indoorsy" look, use traditional table lamps.

    chron.com Chronicle 2010

  • It is remarkable how even a movie as intensely talky and indoorsy as this one improves when seen as it is meant to be seen -- not on a twenty-inch screen with DVD skips courtesy of Netflix.

    Alex Henry: My Dinner with Andre, Revisited 2010

  • I fantasized about having adventures of my own, but I was quite content to live out the fantasies in my mind, being an indoorsy, introspective kind of child.

    Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009

  • I fantasized about having adventures of my own, but I was quite content to live out the fantasies in my mind, being an indoorsy, introspective kind of child.

    Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009

  • So far he has done his best work on quiet, indoorsy movies, crafting tiny gems in the kitchen ( "Eat Drink Man Woman"), the drawing room ( "Sense and Sensibility") and the bedroom ( "The Ice Storm").

    It's The Year Of The Dragon 2008

  • The WaPo frets about how kids are too indoorsy these days:

    Archive 2007-06-01 Ann Althouse 2007

  • I am the most indoorsy girl of all time, but I remember with great fondness all the neighborhood tearing-around we did, and the biking, and the frog-catching, and the making poisonous "tea" from leaves in the backyard.

    Philocrites: Xboxed in: Does your child have 'nature-deficit disorder'? 2005

  • There's something as indoorsy as eBay about the modern military.

    The Backside of War P. J. O'Rourke 2003

  • Anyway, it was another one of those indoorsy days for me.

    Snow? Ann Althouse 2005

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