pull-up
UK/ˈpʊl.ʌp/
pull-up noun: an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar. Palms may be facing in any direction.
Noun (1)
pull-up (plural pull-ups)
- An exercise done for strengthening the arms and back in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar. Palms may be facing in any direction.
- DeWitt compared the average number of pullups college men can do grasping the bar with palms toward the face (supinated) and palms away from the face (pronated), and with kicking and kipping while raising the body. The subjects averaged 2.08 more pullups with the palms supinated than with the palms...1978 Physical Fitness Research Digest page 3
- I did lots of push-ups and pull-ups, and my only regret is that I stopped doing them as a young adult when I finally got to work out in health clubs instead of my basement or garage.2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii
Verb
pull-up (third-person singular simple present pull-ups, present participle pull-upping, simple past and past participle pull-upped)
- To do a pull-up or pull oneself up similarly.
- With a sleek yet muscular build, Nick out pullupped everyone during physical fitness week2012, The Young Despondents. Jason M. Burns.
- From there, things were easy—well, relatively easy. I stood on the rail, reached up, grasped the floor of the balcony above, fingertip pull-upped onto the lip, found another four inches of finger purchase, raised myself high enough […]2010, Designation Gold Rogue Warrior. Richard Marcinko
Noun (2)
pull-up (plural pull-ups)
- Synonym of training pants (“undergarments worn by incontinent people, typically infants, to aid in toilet training during the transition between diapers and underpants”).
- Synonyms:
- training pants
Noun (3)
pull-up (plural pull-ups)
pull-up meaning in Tamil, Tagalog and Malay
pull-up in Tamil
- மேலிழுத்தல், இழுத்து நிறுத்தல்
pull-up in Tagalog
- an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
- pagbabaras
pull-up in Malay
- an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
- tarik tubi
Synonyms of pull-up
Forms of pull-up
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pull-ups |
| alternative form | pullup |
| alternative form | pull up |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | pull-ups |
| present participle | pull-upping |
| past participle | pull-upped |
| past | pull-upped |
Origin of pull-up
Deverbal from pull up.
Genericized trademark: from the Pull-Ups brand of training pants sold by Huggies.
Clipping.
Words formed from pull-up
Phrases with pull-up
Questions about pull-up
- What does pull-up mean?
- Pull-up means an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar. Palms may be facing in any direction.
- What is pull-up in Tamil?
- Pull-up in Tamil is மேலிழுத்தல், இழுத்து நிறுத்தல். See Pull-up meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is pull-up?
- Pull-up can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce pull-up?
- Pull-up is pronounced /ˈpʊl.ʌp/ (UK).
- What is the plural of pull-up?
- The plural of pull-up is pull-ups.
Words near pull-up in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: pull-up (page history and authors); pull-up (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.
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