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🪵 A long board 📋 A main principle 🪵 To cover with boards 🍽️ To cook on wood 💥 To drop heavily 🤸 To lie stiffly
to plank

to plank

1 7.3
To lie straight and still, face down in a public place for a photo
  • verb
  • /plæŋk/
  • Slang
translation icon : hacer planking
  • During the party, everyone decided to get in on the fun and plank in the middle of the living room for a funny photo.

So I'm going to have to deny myself food and go to the gym and do the plank and go running in the rain.

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Examples

  • So I'm going to have to deny myself food and go to the gym and do the plank and go running in the rain.

    Mulligan Brothers Interviews

  • You know, Rest up and down Plank, make sure your poise tight and engage in your bike is not talking.

  • You're on push up, plank, walk down, slide with the seesaw.

  • As part of the latest social media trend, she chose to plank on the sidewalk, lying flat with her arms and legs straight.

  • To join the challenge, he asked his friends to find a unique location where they could all plank together for a group photo.

Antonyms

to sit
∞ 1.0

To rest with your weight on your bottom on a seat

to stand
∞ 1.0

To be or put something in an upright position

Phrasal Verbs

to plank down
8.0

To put something down hard, often making a loud sound

to plank over
6.5

To cover a surface with wooden boards

Compounds

garboard plank
  • Specialized
9.9

A piece of wood placed next to the keel on each side of a wooden ship's hull

plank-bed
  • Archaic
9.1

A simple bed made of wooden boards with no mattress

How Stiff

to plank
  • Slang
1 7.3
to sit still
66 1.0
to lie
∞ 1.0
to sit
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

plank infinitive
planked past
planked past participle
planking present participle
planks third person singular

Etymology

The informal verb plank for lying straight and stiff comes from the image of a wooden board: people lie very straight and stiff, looking like a 'plank', which is why the game is called planking.