bar pad

Noun

bar pad (plural bar pads)

1. Synonym of barbell pad.
   • Set the bar pad in the center of the bar. If you don't have a bar pad, it's easy enough to wrap a towel around the bar as well.2011, Nick Nilsson, The Best Arm Exercises You've Never Heard Of
   • Lower the bar down so it is about 30cm off the ground and place a bar pad (a black, cushioned tube) around the centre of the horizontal bar.2019, Chloe Madeley, Transform Your Body With Weights

   Synonyms:

   barbell pad

2. A cushioned tube that fits over the handlebar.
   • Installation of the mount, locating tower and stabilizer is a simple bolt-on affair, with ony minor surgery to the provided bar pad required to make room for the damper's low-speed adjustment knob.2005 January, “BRP Under Bar Mount: Stability with protection”, in Cycle World Magazine, volume 44, number 1, page 86
   • The vintage custom-vented number plate, steel handlebars and old-school bar pad just scream “1983 factory race machine.”2021 December 9, “1983 HONDA CR480: BEHIND THE BUILD”, in Dirt Bike
3. A rubber pad on a leather plate, which fits across the bottom of a horseshoe to protect the frog of the horse's hoof.
   • For long-standing "corns," for cases of chronic laminitis, and for horses that markedly "go on their heels" the bar-pad is without doubt the most efficient arrangement yet invented.1898, William Hunting, The Art of Horse-shoeing: A Manual for Farriers, page 120
   • For habitual use in such cases as prove obstinate to treatment, or where a complete cure was never from the commencement expected, the bar pad is undoubtedly one of the most useful inventions to our hand.1906, H. Caulton Reeks, Diseases of the Horse's Foot, page 129