warm-up
Noun
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Noun
warm-up
- The act of exercising or stretching in preparation for strenuous activity
- If you don't do your warm-ups properly you have a greater chance of injury.
- Any act of preparation for a performance
- Drivers are allowed 5 minutes for warm-up before the race starts.
- A period of time allocated for performing warm-ups.
- Keep a sharp eye on the referee during warm-up to check out his mood.
- French: échauffement
- Russian: разминка
warm-up
- Attributive use of the noun
- 2010, Matt Warshaw, The History of Surfing, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=HTL8tumsVB0C&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&dq=%22sculled%22|%22sculling%22+australia+OR+beer+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=5-yQcvRBrn&sig=F7xT26hd9Du3nGNSi0T7grXK3rc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5zw6UL-1B46XiAfXkYCgDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22sculled%22|%22sculling%22%20australia%20OR%20beer%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 136],
- After a three-day Torquay-to-Sydney road trip with his hosts, Noll rejoined his American temmates, unshaven and stinking of alcohol, the Team USA badge ripped from his warm-up jacket and replaced by an Aussie-made patch of Disney character Gladstone Gander sculling a frothy mug of beer.
- My friend is playing in the warm-up band for the big show tonight.
- Bill crashed during the warm-up lap.
- 2010, Matt Warshaw, The History of Surfing, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=HTL8tumsVB0C&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&dq=%22sculled%22|%22sculling%22+australia+OR+beer+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=5-yQcvRBrn&sig=F7xT26hd9Du3nGNSi0T7grXK3rc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5zw6UL-1B46XiAfXkYCgDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22sculled%22|%22sculling%22%20australia%20OR%20beer%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 136],
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