warm-up routine
- noun
- /wɔrm ʌp ruˈtin/
- Before every practice session, I always start with a warm-up routine to prevent injuries.
Examples
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I went through my normal warm-up routine, focusing on my breathing, keeping everything under control.
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The student teacher always began class with a warm-up routine, followed by a review task from a previous lesson, unless it was the first lesson of a new unit.
Academic text (1995) -
I would lead kids through a little warm up routine known as mouser size.
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Have a good warm-up routine.
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However, in addition, participants were asked before the beginning of their warm-up routine to indicate their time goal for the upcoming race.
Academic text (2008) -
Many teachers use scales as the basis of their warm-up routines.
Academic text (1995) -
Follow a warm-up routine.
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After five or six lessons, it becomes both practical and advantageous to incorporate some vibrato exercises into the daily warm-up routine.
Academic text (1994) -
It also works well as an element of a longer warm-up routine that includes scales, chorales, and rhythm exercises.
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This practice assignment consists of a warm-up routine, exercises to improve technique, scales, articulation, and vibrato.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
Light exercise you do before harder activity to get your body ready
A short practice session to prepare for a sport or event
Antonyms
How Intense
Surface Forms
Morphology
warm-up + routine
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'warm-up' (preparatory light exercise) with 'routine' (a series or habitual set of actions), yielding 'a series of preparatory exercises.' This compositional compound follows common English patterns and cross-linguistically familiar logic, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Warm-up routine comes from the simple idea of warm-up, making muscles warmer, and routine, a set of repeated actions. Think of light exercises that slowly wake your muscles and get them ready, and that's why a warm-up routine means 'a series of light exercises before harder activity' to 'prepare' the body and 'reduce the risk of injury'.