If we take a look into the dictionary, we find out, that nudism is: "A movement of nudity promotion and its practicing". The word has its origin in the Latin "nudo", that means "naked". But evermore there is in this connection a more modern term used, and that is 'naturism'. It comes from the Latin word natura, that means "nature". If with nudism we mean the promotion and practicing of nudity as such, naturism is more concentrating on the return of the man to the nature through his dwelling without clothes in a natural environment of the nature. (On our web site we use to use mainly the word nudism, because this term is to the public generally more known).


The next designation of "nudity practicing", which is more and more used even in an international scale, are the letters "FKK". It is the abbreviation of the German word 'Freikoerperkultur', which is interpreted as the 'free body culture'. Because the nudism movement has its modern origin in Germany, from where it spreads further into the entire world, this abbreviation is more and more used for the designation of the nudist beaches and resorts even outside of Germany.