pull-up
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /ˈpʊl.ʌp/
pull-up
- An exercise done for strengthening the arms and back in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar.
- specifically, such an exercise with palms away from the shoulders.
- There might be handles that are parallel to each other, giving you a grip option that's halfway in between a pull-up and chin-up.
- In a pull-up, your hands are pronated (which means palms are facing away from the body) and your grip is wider. In a chin-up, your hands are supinated (palms are toward the body) and your grip is more narrow.
- 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii
- I did lots of push-ups and pull-ups, and my only regret is that I stopped doing them as a young adult when I finally got to work out in health clubs instead of my basement or garage.
- specifically, such an exercise with palms away from the shoulders.
- (electronics) A pullup resistor.
- French: traction
- German: Klimmzug
- Russian: подтя́гивание
- Spanish: barbilla, ejercicio de tracción, dominada
pull-up
- To do a pull-up or pull oneself up similarly.
- 2012, The Young Despondents ↗. Jason M. Burns.
- With a sleek yet muscular build, Nick out pullupped everyone during physical fitness week
- 2010, Designation Gold Rogue Warrior ↗. Richard Marcinko
- From there, things were easy—well, relatively easy. I stood on the rail, reached up, grasped the floor of the balcony above, fingertip pull-upped onto the lip, found another four inches of finger purchase, raised myself high enough […]
- 2012, The Young Despondents ↗. Jason M. Burns.
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