a couch potato

a couch potato

  (informal)
a person who does not like physical activity and prefers to sit down, usually to watch television
Usage notes: A couch is a piece of furniture that people sit on.
The remote control television was invented for couch potatoes.
See also: couch, potato
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If you're a bit of a couch potato, it promises that within nine weeks it can help you run 5k or for around half an hour.
Plenty of support to get you moving
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Prof Gleeson told a conference at the University of Liverpool: "If you have a tendency to be a couch potato then you probably have an average risk of catching an infection - typically 2-3 URTIs per year.
How walkers beat colds and flu
A DIET pills company wants to pay someone pounds 23,750 a year to be a couch potato and gorge on junk food.
SLOB-A-JOB; Diet firm will pay couch potato pounds 23k a year
THE Weight Watchers group leader knows all about being a couch potato .
DOWN AND OUT ON THE COUCH; GLASGOW TOPS UK'S LAZIEST CITY POLL
And 20% described themselves as a couch potato or as someone who never exercises.
Struggling for breath
Q I AM a bit of a couch potato but as a late New Year's resolution I started going to the gym.
I'M A COUCH POTATO AND GYM LEFT ME FLAT ON MY BACK
The point of all this information is to emphasise to Windy that I can oppose wind factories and not be a couch potato.
Letter: Voice of the North - Against wind factories but no couch potato
Her husband, Jay, is a couch potato whose biggest thrill is going out to eat.
Taken for Granted
Both the lemon poppy seed muffin bread and the Waldorf salad appear in his book for the American Diabetes Association, ``Confessions of a Couch Potato.
FLOUNDERING NO LONGER A DIABETIC SINCE AGE 17, ACTOR STEPHEN FURST SHARES HOW HE CLEANED UP HIS ACT AND DROPPED 150 POUNDS
When nutritionist Jane Hurley walked down the potato chip aisle of a supermarket just five years ago, she left with a conclusion that would make a couch potato cringe with guilt: Pretzels.
Nibbling in the nineties
But if you're a couch potato, we need you to stay a couch potato.
All Low-Fat Diets Are Not Equal, Stanford Study Shows
Washington, Dec 1 (ANI): Scientists at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute have used a couch potato mouse model to study muscle function.
Study exhibits the 'couch potato effect' in mice
It's called the Spud Club, an association to further the benefits of being a couch potato.
Bob Shields: Couch potatoes of the World - Unite!
Erika Robles, 14, said she's half a couch potato although she walks 30 minutes between home and school each day.
MISSING MUSCLE: LAUSD KIDS FAIL FITNESS
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