also: すえっと · すぇっと
sweatshirt; sweatpants; sweats; sweat fabric
Refers to casual clothing items like sweatshirts and sweatpants, or the thick, stretchy, absorbent fabric they are made from. Often used in compounds like スウェットシャツ (sweatshirt) and スウェットパンツ (sweatpants).
It's cold today, so I wore a sweatshirt.
This sweat fabric feels nice against the skin.
sweatpants; tracksuit bottoms; joggers
sweatshirt
sweatsuit; sweat suit
Standard katakana spelling for the loanword from English 'sweat'.
Variant spelling without the small ェ; less common but still encountered.
Uncommon variant; the small ェ is sometimes used but スウェット is preferred.
Loanword from English 'sweat', adopted into Japanese with the katakana spelling スウェット.