athletic vs bruising

athletic

adj
  • Having a muscular, well developed body, being in shape. 

  • An attribute of a motion or play which requires fine physical ability. 

  • Of a level in a Super Mario game with an emphasis on platforming challenge, often involving precise jumps between floating platforms above a bottomless pit, and having upbeat background music. 

  • Having to do with athletes. 

  • Physically active. 

noun
  • A muscular, large–boned person, in the typology of Ernst Kretschmer. 

bruising

adj
  • Wearisome, arduous. 

  • That bruises. 

noun
  • Bruises on a person's skin. 

  • A violent physical attack on a person. 

How often have the words athletic and bruising occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )