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pushup

pushup

17 2.3
An exercise where you lie face down and push your body up and down using your arms
  • noun
  • /ˈpʊʃˌʌp/
  • US
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  • "Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty!" Diane Ames squeezed out the last of her pushups and dropped to the deck, tired but happy.
  • pushup position
  • set of pushups
  • classic pushup

It was just like all squats, pushups and just like lifting random shit.

Examples

  • Performing pushups for thirty minutes a day, the body can be in good shape.

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  • We'll get your hundred pushups done.

  • Probably the number of pushups I can do in an hour.

  • Get over here and do pushups with me.

  • Performing the exercises for the upper body, pushups can be the best option.

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  • I'm a little out of breath from all the pushups.

  • 50 sit-ups and 50 pushups.

  • Who wants 50 pushups?

  • Members also do lunges, pushups, and medicine ball relays on the sand.

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  • To test your strength, try to do 20 pushups in a row without stopping.

Synonyms

press-up
vspushup
  • UK
3.7

An exercise where you lie on your stomach and push your body up and down with your arms

is an identical term used as a different word form

Compounds

An exercise where you push your body up and down with hands wide apart to work the chest and shoulders

How Intense

powerlifting
1 4.2
bench press
4 3.0
pushup
  • US
17 2.3

Surface Forms

pushup singular
pushups plural

Morphology

pushup = push (transparent) = up + push

The noun names the exercise caused by the action 'push' + direction 'up', a directly derivable compound. [Postprocessing: moved 'up' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Pushup is made of the two words push 'to press' and up 'toward a higher place', so a pushup is simply the exercise of pushing your body up and down from the floor.