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RDL

RDL is the initialism of Romanian deadlift.

Meaning of Romanian deadlift

Noun

Romanian deadlift (plural Romanian deadlifts)

  1. A form of deadlift in which the body is bent at the hips and the knees are not bent.
    • Powerful hip extension is essential if you hope to squat heavier, jump higher or run faster, making it essential to train the hams using focused hip-extension exercises (like the romanian deadlift).2010, Adam Garett, “Fried Hams”, in Reps!, 17:23

Forms of RDL

pluralRDLs

Questions about RDL

What is RDL the initialism of?
RDL is the initialism of Romanian deadlift.

Words near RDL in the dictionary

  1. rdfs
  2. RDG
  3. RDH
  4. RDHs
  5. RDJ
  6. RDL
  7. RDLs
  8. RDM
  9. RDMA
  10. RDMed
  11. RDMer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: RDL (page history and authors); Romanian deadlift (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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