press-up
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ˈpress-up noun [countable]
British EnglishDSO a type of exercise in which you lie facing the ground, and push your body up with your arms 俯卧撑 SYN American English push-up →5 see picture at 见图 gym
Examples from the Corpus
press-up• The Corporal who was with us at the time, a new one detached from Orange, immediately awarded Mike 2,000 press-ups.• Shame heats our cell, and press-ups, and prayers.• Examples of which most people have heard are press-ups, stomach curls, and leg lifts.• We had been getting it wrong, so were face down in a foot of water in the field doing press-ups.• In return for their addresses he would allow me to stop doing press-ups in the mud.• He was doing press-ups, an activity which Dougal found distasteful.• What an incitement to lust all those press-ups must be.• I pissed in a test-tube, had four injections and did twenty press-ups to get my heart going.ˈpress-up nounChineseSyllable
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press-up
ˈpress-up
noun [countable]

British English a type of exercise in which you lie facing the ground, and push your body up with your arms
SYN push-up American English
ˈpress-up
noun [countable]
British English a type of exercise in which you lie facing the ground, and push your body up with your arms
SYN push-up American English
