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An exercise done for strengthening the arms and back in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar. Palms may be facing in any direction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 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.
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Synonym of training pants (“undergarments worn by incontinent people, typically infants, to aid in toilet training during the transition between diapers and underpants”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: training pants
Antonyms: none provided
A pull-up resistor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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To do a pull-up or pull oneself up similarly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 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 [...]
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an arm exercise performed by pulling yourself up on a horizontal bar until your chin is level with the bar
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: chin-up
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: arm exercise
a roadside cafe especially for lorry drivers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pull-in
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cafe, coffeehouse, coffee shop, coffee bar
Deverbal from pull up.
Genericized trademark: from the Pull-Ups brand of training pants sold by Huggies.
Clipping.
Across languages
Translations
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
набиране
(nabirane)
— an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
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Chinese Cantonese:
引體上升 /引体上升
(jan5 tai2 soeng6 sing1)
— an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
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Chinese Mandarin:
引體向上 /引体向上
(yǐntǐxiàngshàng)
— an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
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Czech:
shyb
— an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
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Danish:
kropshævning
— an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
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Estonian:
lõuatõmme
— an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
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Finnish:
leuanveto
— an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
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French:
traction
— an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
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German:
Klimmzug
— an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
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Greek:
έλξη
(élxi)
— an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
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Hungarian:
húzódzkodás
— an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
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Italian:
trazione alla sbarra
— an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
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Japanese:
懸垂
(kensui)
— an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
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Korean:
턱걸이
(teokgeori)
— an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
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Lithuanian:
prisitraukimas
— an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
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Polish:
podciąganie się na drążku
— an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
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Romanian:
tracțiune
— an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
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Russian:
подтя́гивание
(podtjágivanije)
— an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
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Serbo-Croatian:
zgib
— an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
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Serbo-Croatian:
згиб
— an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
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Spanish:
barbilla
— an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
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Spanish:
ejercicio de tracción
— an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
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Spanish:
dominada
— an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
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Swedish:
räckhäv
— an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
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Tagalog:
pagbabaras
— an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
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Turkish:
barfiks
— an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
