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sit-up
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sit-up
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.
▪ The sit-ups start with the back off the board, and end before the upper body reaches the vertical position.
▪ Then he did exercises he had learned in the Armystraddle jumps, deep knee bends, sit-ups and push-up.
▪ Toe touches and sit-ups should be avoided; they are particularly harmful to anyone who has osteoporosis in the spine.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sit-up

also situp, kind of physical exercise, 1955, from the verbal phrase (attested from early 13c.); see sit (v.) + up (adv.). Related: Sit-ups.

Wiktionary
sit-up

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 position.

WordNet
sit-up

n. an stomach exercise in which a person sits up from a supine position without using the arms for leverage

Wikipedia
Sit-up

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 a fuller range of motion and condition additional muscles. Sit-ups target the hip flexors, rectus abdominus and also work the iliopsoas, tensor fasciae latae, rectus femoris, sartorius, and, to a very small degree, the obliques.

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.