bench press en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈbɛntʃˌpɹɛs/
Meanings
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An exercise performed by pressing the weight of a barbell away from one's body while lying on a bench.
...Nubret has pushed and pulled maniacally at iron while sustaining a diet that would explode an ordinary metabolism—doing for that renowned chest, for instance, forty sets of twenty benchpresses (pushing 210 pounds off his chest a total of eight hundred times every other day)[…]
1974, Charles Gaines, George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 18:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| bench presses | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| benchpress | alternative | lexicographic |
Descendants
Translations (26)
es banco de prensa (exercise) · tr yatarak halter kaldırma (exercise) · ga ardú binse (exercise) · da bænkpres (exercise) · fr développé couché (exercise) · hu fekvenyomás (exercise) · az bench press (exercise) · az sinədən qaldırma (exercise) · pt supino (exercise) · fi penkki (exercise) · it panca piana (exercise) · fi penkkipunnerrus (exercise) · cmn 臥推 /卧推 (exercise) · ko 벤치 프레스 (exercise) · es press de banca (exercise) · es prensa de banco (exercise) · de Bankdrücken (exercise) · ja ベンチプレス (exercise) · az ağırlığı sinədən qaldırma (exercise) · pl wyciskanie na ławce (exercise) · ca premsa de banc (exercise) · fi penkkaus (exercise) · sv bänkpress (exercise) · ru жим лёжа (exercise) · bg лежа́нка (exercise) · es press de banco (exercise)