Word.ws English Dictionary

bulking up

bulking up is the present participle and gerund of bulk up.

Meaning of bulk up

Verb

bulk up (third-person singular simple present bulks up, present participle bulking up, simple past and past participle bulked up)

  1. (intransitive) To gain weight.
  2. (transitive) To increase the weight of.
    Synonyms:
    hulk out
  3. To train the body with a high-calorie diet and intense weightlifting in order to increase the overall mass of the body, especially the muscles.
    • A review of studies done on runners and strength training showed generally positive impacts and no negative consequences. You won’t hulk out or bulk up just fine-tune some lean muscle in ways that running alone can’t do.2017 January 9, Molly Hurford, “Cross-Training Workouts Every Runner Should Try”, in MapMyRun, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2017

Questions about bulking up

What is bulking up the present participle and gerund of?
Bulking up is the present participle and gerund of bulk up.

Words near bulking up in the dictionary

  1. bulking
  2. bulking agent
  3. bulking agents
  4. bulking large
  5. bulking out
  6. bulking up
  7. bulkings
  8. Bulkington
  9. bulkish
  10. Bulkley
  11. Bulkleys

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bulking up (page history and authors); bulk up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bulking up.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bulking_up. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.