'taut body' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the body of someone who has toned muscles. For example, "She had a taut body, her abs clearly visible through her tank top."
She's forced instead to live by her taut body and her even-more-taut wits.
Meade would, his taut body striding the slick track like an Alvin Ailey dancer, for the victory.
But who would have guessed that Allen could use her masklike face and taut body for domestic comedy?
New knits The designer's fitted, knitted dresses, following a taut body line but malleable in movement, were a hybrid of day and evening wear.
"Soft and strict," Zac Posen said backstage, joshing with models as they swished in dresses that spread at the hem from a taut body line.
Small details drew the eye: McGinnis laying the back of his hand on Skarpetowska's chest, and later lifting her taut body slowly in the air, her feet turned in and crossed at the ankles.
Like Balanchine before him, Mr. Forsythe delights in the push-pull of taut bodies built for speed, and in torquing proper lines almost to their breaking points.
Framed by two sets of light scaffolding, one of which periodically moved, a chorus line of white-powdered dancers slumped, grimaced and grabbed at their crotches, their taut bodies hinging and spasming and sometimes breaking out in jarringly classical moments.
I remember the way he looked at her when things went well; intense, prideful, the dispassionate yet hungry stare that I learned to recognize on television in coaches or trainers as they watch the taut bodies of their favorites.
And then... "O.K., take a break," said the woman at the mirror, her layers of navy pantsuit, gray sweater-vest and white turtleneck in stark contrast to the vivid leotards and leggings adorning taut bodies.
Playing with and photographing small girls soothes him; their taut bodies and wild imaginations are the antithesis of wide-hipped, well-behaved adult womanhood; being with them also helps redress his own childhood memories of being dominated by his sisters.
