Crossword clues for barbell
barbell
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
barbell \bar"bell`\ (b[aum]r"b[e^]l`), n. A bar to which heavy discs are attached at each end; -- it is used for weightlifting exercises.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context weightlifting English) A wide steel bar with premeasured weights affixed to either end, with the central span open for the hands of the weightlifter.
WordNet
n. a bar to which heavy discs are attached at each end; used in weightlifting
Wikipedia
A barbell is a piece of exercise equipment used in weight training, bodybuilding, weightlifting and powerlifting, consisting of a long bar with weights attached at each end.
Barbells range in length from to above , although bars longer than are used primarily by powerlifters and are not commonplace. The central portion of the bar varies in diameter from to (e.g. Apollon's Axle), and is often engraved with a knurled crosshatch pattern to help lifters maintain a solid grip. Disc weights (plates) are slid onto the outer portions of the bar to increase or decrease the desired total weight. These weights are often secured with collars to prevent them from sliding off during the exercise, which can result in injuries and death, or flinging the unevenly loaded barbell through the air.
Barbell style piercing jewelry is composed of a straight bar and with a bead on each end, one or both beads unscrewable for removal and/or changing of the beads. Often one of the beads is fixed, either via epoxy or welding, so that only one bead is used to install or remove the jewelry. Barbell threads are usually right-handed.
They are named because they resemble the barbells that are used in weightlifting.
Usage examples of "barbell".
Behind another door was a rack of barbells and one of those universal home gyms where you could do fifty different strength-training exercises.
She gave special attention to the dark, plumlike crown, circling each end of the barbell with her tongue before tonguing his slit, savoring the taste, the feeling.
Once Fallows had seen him working out in the yard doing arm curls with a 250-pound barbell.
Presumably the process effects the id, for, after six sessions, I could press that barbell above my head with one hand.
There was only a single thin path through which he evidently strolled from barbell to book to tub.
Every type of Nile fish was served, from barbelled catfish, whose flesh ran with rich yellow fat, to white-fleshed perch and bream.
We knew that 3F was Iowa Bob, and we would tune in the sound of his barbells every once in a while — often interrupting him with our own comments, like: ‘Come on, Grandpa, a little quicker!
Frank’s secret quarters were unchanged, and the barbells still resided in Iowa Bob’s room, which gave me more reason to visit Franny, who liked to watch me lift.
I think that considering the noise attached to the death of Iowa Bob, we expected the funeral to be louder, too — ‘at least the sound of barbells falling,’ I said to Franny.
Whether Vienna was more sophisticated, or less — whether Franny had a room with barbells or a room with lace — we were inhabitants of one Hotel New Hampshire after another.
I asked a couple of the younger radicals if they knew where I could get a set of barbells, but they seemed very suspicious — that we were Americans — and either they didn’t understand English or they chose to speak their own language.
It was followed so closely by the single short yelp of her male companion that I reached a hand out of my bed and grabbed one of my barbells for support.
We’ve got barbells and dumbbells for every occasion — and we have the ballroom’s splendid view of the Atlantic Ocean.
I mean, from that day in Vienna when she promised us all that she was going to take care of us, that she was going to be our mother, from that day forth, Franny has stuck to her guns, Franny has come through — the hero in her has kept pumping, the hero in Franny could lift a ballroom full of barbells.
He takes over the library on the second floor the way Junior Jones dominates the barbells in the ballroom when he is visiting, the way Franny’s beauty graces every room when she is here — the good Maine air and the cold Maine sea: Franny graces it all.