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push-upping

push-upping is the present participle and gerund of push-up.

Meaning of push-up

Verb

push-up (third-person singular simple present push-ups, present participle push-upping, simple past and past participle push-upped)

  1. To perform a push-up, or to lift oneself off the ground in a push-up–like manner.
    • Jenk kept off to the side, but joined the class as they started their push-ups.[…] Jenk push-upped, eyes on the ground.2006, Suzanne Brockmann, Into the Storm, page 154

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Questions about push-upping

What is push-upping the present participle and gerund of?
Push-upping is the present participle and gerund of push-up.

Words near push-upping in the dictionary

  1. push-up bar
  2. push-up bars
  3. push-up bra
  4. push-up bras
  5. push-upped
  6. push-upping
  7. push-ups
  8. pushability
  9. pushable
  10. pushables
  11. pushalong

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Adapted from Wiktionary: push-upping (page history and authors); push-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.

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