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physiotherapist

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

A therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

therapist who treats injury or dysfunction with exercises and other physical treatments of the disorder

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: physical therapist

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: therapist, healer

Narrower terms: massager

History

Etymology

From physio- + therapist or physiotherapy + -ist.

Across languages

Translations

42 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: أخصائي في العلاج الطبيعي — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Arabic: أخصائية في العلاج الطبيعي — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Catalan: fisioterapeuta — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Chinese Cantonese: 物理治療師 /物理治疗师 (mat6 lei5 zi6 liu4 si1) — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Chinese Mandarin: 理療師 /理疗师 (lǐliáoshī) — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Chinese Mandarin: 物理治療師 /物理治疗师 (wùlǐ zhìliáoshī) — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Czech: fyzioterapeut — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Danish: fysioterapeut — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Danish: fys — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Dutch: fysiotherapeut — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Dutch: fysiotherapeute — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Dutch: kinesitherapeut — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Dutch: kinesist — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Esperanto: fizioterapiisto — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Esperanto: kinezoterapiisto — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Esperanto: fizikoterapiisto — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Esperanto: movflegisto — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Finnish: fysioterapeutti — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • French: physiothérapeute — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • French: kinésithérapeute — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Georgian: ფიზიოთერაპევტი (pizioteraṗevṭi) — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • German: Physiotherapeut — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • German: Physiotherapeutin — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • German: Krankengymnast — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • German: Heilgymnast — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Hungarian: gyógytornász — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Hungarian: fizioterapeuta — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Indonesian: fisioterapis — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Irish: fisiteiripeoir — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Irish: fisiteiripeach — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Macedonian: физиотерапе́вт (fizioterapévt) — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Polish: fizjoterapeuta — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Polish: fizjoterapeutka — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Portuguese: fisioterapeuta — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Romanian: fizioterapeut — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Romanian: fizioterapeută — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Russian: физиотерапе́вт (fizioterapévt) — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Spanish: fisioterapeuta — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Swedish: sjukgymnast — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Swedish: fysioterapeut — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Turkish: fizyoterapist — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise
  • Volapük: füsiolekälan — therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise