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burpee

burpee

2 6.3
A full-body exercise that includes a squat, a push-up and a jump
  • noun
  • /ˈbɜrpi/
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  • Olympic lifting, swinging kettlebells, and doing body weight movements (pull-ups, push-ups, burpees) all work the core, making it stronger and tighter.

I might do burpees, which I hate, but I love fucking burpees.

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Examples

  • And I've been doing burpees every day for five years and you know it, it's basically become his go to exercise.

  • Run for 10 minutes; go for a 1-minute sprint, 10 burpees, and 20 push-ups.

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  • And in an attempt to raise even more money for the kids, for every $10 received in donations, Clark and I will do one burpee.

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  • I dare you to do burpees for 30 minutes straight.

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  • So what I'm pretty much saying is that you should come, hang out, work out, and do burpees.

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  • So we'll start with a generic burpee, jumping to a plank, jumping to the sky.

  • Five burpees, right now.

  • So if you haven't gathered it yet, he took me to a CrossFit gym, and we did a baby run followed by a lot of burpees and squats.

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  • The various exercises included jumping in place, squats, lunges, push-ups, planking, tuck jumps, burpees, and mountain climbing.

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  • Doing ten burpees every morning really helps improve my fitness.

Antonyms

703 1.0

A period when you stop activity to relax or sleep

How Hard

burpee
2 6.3
squat
53 2.5

Surface Forms

burpee singular
burpees plural

Etymology

Burpee is named after an American fitness researcher, Royal H. Burpee, who invented the quick, full-body move in the 1930s as a simple 'fitness test'. So a burpee today is the short but hard exercise of a squat, a push-up, and a jump.