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n. An exercise machine whose action resembles that of rowing a boat.
Usage examples of "rowing machine".
In the exercise area, Lance Muncie strained against a variable-resistance rowing machine.
I begin my programme with some light stretching before going on the rowing machine.
She got up from the sliding seat of the rowing machine, then flopped down on to the deck.
There was also a Concept-II rowing machine and I embarked on a manic fitness program, alternating 5,000m and 10,000m per session - and 20km on Sunday if we got double-gym.
Its only real function was to protect the floor from Gwendolyn's exercise equipment, which gleamed in the dim light scattering off the clouds from Shanghai: a step unit done up in Beaux-Arts ironmongery, a rowing machine cleverly fashioned of writhing sea-serpents and hard-bodied nereids, a rack of free weights supported by four callipygious caryatids-not chunky Greeks but modern women, one of each major racial group, each tricep, gluteus, latissimus, sartorius, and rectus abdominus casting its own highlight.
Jigger stood up from the rowing machine, came across, and patted Rick on the shoulder.
He'd left behind his bicycle, rowing machine, and the remaining moving cartons.
She stays on the rowing machine until she's crossed Lake Tahoe in her mind, keeping a steady rhythm by singing tunes by Sarah McLachlan or Juliana Hatfield or Meredith Brooks or Sasha Goodall, and when she does stomach crunches and leg lifts, the padded mats under her seem as if they will start smoking before she's half done.
In my case, I went off a bridge and woke up on a trash-littered embankment with a trucker whapping me on the back and pumping my arms up and down like he had only twenty-four hours to get in shape and he had mistaken me for a rowing machine.
He had a rowing machine, eight cardboard moving boxes, unla-beled and still taped shut.
Phule was working up a good sweat on the rowing machine, getting into a rhythm that was comfortable without being too easy, putting his back into the effort.
Smoothly he pulled on the oars of the rowing machine, leaned back, pushed forward.