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stomach exercise

stomach exercise

3.0
An exercise that makes the muscles around your belly stronger
  • noun
  • /ˈstʌmək ˈɛksərˌsaɪz/
translation icon : ejercicio abdominal
  • 7 Crucial Stomach Exercises.

Examples

  • Many fitness trainers recommend stomach exercises to improve core strength and stability.

  • "Sally gave everyone styrofoam floats to loop over their shoulders for the stomach exercises.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • To achieve a flat tummy, she incorporates various stomach exercises into her daily routine.

  • Samantha found that regular stomach exercises helped her significantly strengthen her abdominal muscles.

Synonyms

sit-up
vsstomach exercise
6 2.3

An exercise where you lie on your back and lift your upper body to strengthen stomach muscles

is a general exercise type used for abdominal strengthening rather than one exact movement
abdo exercise
vsstomach exercise
  • Informal
3.6

An exercise that works the stomach muscles

is the general term for any exercise aimed at those muscles
tummy crunch
vsstomach exercise
  • Informal
3.7

An exercise that lifts the shoulders toward the hips to work the stomach muscles

uses the broad idea of strengthening those muscles rather than a single short movement

How Intense

sit-up
6 2.3
stomach exercise
3.0
abdo exercise
  • Informal
3.6

Surface Forms

stomach exercise singular
stomach exercises plural

Morphology

stomach + exercise

The meaning 'an exercise intended to strengthen the abdomen' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'stomach' (the belly area) with 'exercise' (physical movements for fitness). This ordinary noun–noun composition follows standard English compounding and has clear cross‑linguistic analogues, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the intended meaning.

Etymology

Stomach exercise comes from the simple image of using movement to work the stomach area, with exercise meaning actions you do to make muscles stronger. That's why it means 'a physical exercise to make the belly muscles stronger'.