Bare chested

"Bare chested" refers to the state of not wearing any clothes above the waist. If someone is bare chested, then their entire torso is exposed. It is also known as "stripped to the waist", or "being shirtless", or "topless", although the latter is usually only applied to women. It is much more common for men to be bare chested than women, since in most places it is illegal for a woman to be bare chested. See also topfree equality.

Fictional bare chesters

Some characters in TV shows or films are well known for their shirtlessness.

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• Adam Cartwright (Pernell Roberts) in Bonanza was often seeing shirtless working as a blacksmith.
• Bonehead (Keith Allen) and Foyle (Peter Richardson) from ' worked shirtless all the time.
• Randy (Patrick Roach) in Trailer Park Boys is always shirtless.
• The Smurfs never wore shirts.
• Obelix in the Asterix series is always shirtless, although his trousers come up to half way up his chest, so he is not entirely bare chested.
• John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone}, often fought shirtless.
• Johnny Bravo loves to show his muscled chest at Cartoon Network.