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cat-cow

cat-cow noun: a stretching motion that incorporates the cat and cow asanas, in which a person arches their back first in one direction, and then the other.

Noun

cat-cow (plural cat-cows)

  1. (yoga) A stretching motion that incorporates the cat and cow asanas, in which a person arches their back first in one direction, and then the other.

Verb

cat-cow (third-person singular simple present cat-cows, present participle cat-cowing, simple past and past participle cat-cowed)

  1. (yoga) To engage in cat-cow stretching.
    • Well, actually, as attendees learned while we cat-cowed and downward-dog’d, the real instigator was David’s loss to his girlfriend in a common “debate”...2010, Ashley Koff, “Yoga for Foodies: A Most Excellent Combination”, in HuffPost
    • Continue to Cat-Cow (flex and extend) your spine and experience your shoulder blades sliding together and apart.2012, Andrew Belcher, Mind Body Bike: Yoga and the Art of Slowing Down to Speed Up

Examples of cat-cow in a sentence

  • “Cat-cowing is great first thing in the morning,” she said.2018, Amber Leigh Williams, Navy SEAL's Match:
  • We continued to meet, registering for the same birthing classes, the same CPR course, cat-cowing next to one another at the same yoga studio.2018, Aimee Molloy, The Perfect Mother: A Novel:

Forms of cat-cow

Noun
pluralcat-cows
Verb
third-person singular presentcat-cows
present participlecat-cowing
past participlecat-cowed
pastcat-cowed

Questions about cat-cow

What does cat-cow mean?
Cat-cow means a stretching motion that incorporates the cat and cow asanas, in which a person arches their back first in one direction, and then the other.
How do you use cat-cow in a sentence?
“Cat-cowing is great first thing in the morning,” she said.
What part of speech is cat-cow?
Cat-cow can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of cat-cow?
The plural of cat-cow is cat-cows.

Words near cat-cow in the dictionary

  1. cat-called
  2. cat-calling
  3. cat-calls
  4. cat-castle
  5. cat-claw
  6. cat-cow
  7. cat-cowed
  8. cat-cowing
  9. cat-cows
  10. cat-eye
  11. cat-eyed

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