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Lifting couch is exercise
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sit-up
Word definitions for sit-up in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. An exercise in which the abdominal muscles are contracted, bringing the torso of a person lying down to a more upright position. n. An exercise in which the abdominal muscles are contracted, bringing the torso of a person lying down to a more upright ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also situp , kind of physical exercise, 1955, from the verbal phrase (attested from early 13c.); see sit (v.) + up (adv.). Related: Sit-ups .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ An acute attack of dizziness while doing my sit-ups. ▪ Before you think it's too late to do those sit-ups, though, think again. ▪ He also did sit-ups, but not in front of me. ▪ I could get away with only forty twist sit-ups. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The sit-up is an abdominal endurance training exercise commonly performed to strengthen and tone the abdominal muscles . It is similar to a crunch (crunches target the rectus abdominus and also work the external and internal obliques ), but sit-ups have ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an stomach exercise in which a person sits up from a supine position without using the arms for leverage
Usage examples of sit-up.
There was a two minute rest after the pushups, then fifty sit-ups in two minutes.
We'll do bench presses, curls, pullovers, flyes, some shrugs, some sit-ups.
While figure skaters spun and leapt, Winnie did sit-ups and talked nonstop.
Jean-Baptiste can do push-ups, sit-ups and jumping jacks whenever he pleases inside his sixty-four-square-foot cell.
Once I finished my sit-ups, I started with leg curls, the exercise I most despise.
To pass (and avoid being assigned to a Physical Conditioning Platoon), they would be required to do two pull-ups, thirty-five sit-ups in two minutes, and a one and one half mile run in thirteen and a half minutes or less.
A `warmup' run of about four kilometres in our boots, with badly blistered and cut feet from the previous marches, half-killed us and and then a gruelling routine of press-ups and sit-ups finished us off.
We went out for a run with him one day, stopping to do press-ups and sit-ups.
Before, he'd been able to do a hundred push-ups and sit-ups without even breathing hard— He went still, waiting for the half memory to become full-blown, waiting for the mental door to open, but nothing happened.
At first she’d been able to do only stretching exercises, but she’d pushed herself hard, jogging in place even when she had to hold on to the marble vanity to keep her balance, doing push-ups and sit-ups and ab crunches.
Coach Bob tried to train him out of this maiming habit by teaching him other sports: retrieving balls, perfecting the forward roll — even sit-ups — but Earl was already old, and not blessed with the belief in vigorous exercise that possessed Iowa Bob.
Or the sit-ups (‘one hundred and twenty-one, one hundred and twenty-two, one hundred and twenty-three’).
And put maybe a flat twenty-five-pounder on your chest when you do your sit-ups — you’re doing them too easily.
Carrying tennis rackets and a hopper of balls, he walked first to the track, where he ran six miles and did push-ups, sit-ups, and crunches, to get his fix of endorphin.
He worked out with weights in the gym, sprinted several laps, and did pushups and sit-ups until his body's natural opiates kicked in.