Crossword clues for press-up
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
press-up
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Examples of which most people have heard are press-ups, stomach curls, and leg lifts.
▪ He was doing press-ups, an activity which Dougal found distasteful.
▪ I pissed in a test-tube, had four injections and did twenty press-ups to get my heart going.
▪ In return for their addresses he would allow me to stop doing press-ups in the mud.
▪ Shame heats our cell, and press-ups, and prayers.
▪ The Corporal who was with us at the time, a new one detached from Orange, immediately awarded Mike 2,000 press-ups.
▪ We had been getting it wrong, so were face down in a foot of water in the field doing press-ups.
▪ What an incitement to lust all those press-ups must be.
Wiktionary
press-up
n. (context UK English) push-up (exercise)
WordNet
press-up
n. an arm exercise performed lying face to the floor and pushing the body up and down with the arms [syn: pushup]
Usage examples of "press-up".
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.
When a rare outburst of enthusiasm prompted him to practise press-ups, his arms collapsed and he lay ignominiously on the floor after two attempts, convinced that he was having a heart attack.