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chinning bar en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A bar used for doing chin-ups or pull-ups (exercises in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar)
    • He had lost one of the oars. The other was pulled tight against him like a chinning bar. 1966, Cynthia Ozick, Trust, New York: The New American Library, Part 4, Chapter 20, p. 545:
    • Robert did his exercises, standing in the yard where she could see him. Indian clubs—a chinning bar and shadow boxing. 1977, Timothy Findley, The Wars, New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, published 1978, Prologue, p. 18:

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Synonyms

chinup bar (bar for chin-ups) · chin-up bar (bar for chin-ups)