Wiry

Being a wiry person, he is thin but still looks strong.

Tom has a wiry, athletic physique.

Holmes had sent on a wire, so that Lestrade, as wiry, as dapper, and as ferret-like as ever, was waiting for us at the station.

His face had just a hint of a wiry beard.

The perfumer stroked his wiry, red-tinged beard.

His name is Ted Ames, and on one recent warm, warm blustery morning in Stonington, a picturesque village of about 1500 souls at the tip of Deer Isle, Maine, he could be seen, gray bearded and wiry standing on the dock and looking wistfully out to sea.

The woman had grey wiry hair.

The wiry build of the climber helped him scale the mountain.

My hair was very wiry in my teens.

Don't fight him. He may be small, but he's wiry.