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self-spot

self-spot verb: to protect oneself from injury that can result from attempting to lift too much weight.

Verb

self-spot (third-person singular simple present self-spots, present participle self-spotting, simple past and past participle self-spotted)

  1. (intransitive) To protect oneself from injury that can result from attempting to lift too much weight.
    • Before a student attempts to take all their weight into their inner thigh, have them self-spot by placing their opposite hand on the bent knee.2010, Rebekah Leach, Beginning Aerial Fabric Instructional Manual, page 23
    • The gym had a self-spotting weight system: bench press with three hundred pounds and overhead pull-down bars.2010, Bill Blanchet, The Reform Plan, page 44

Forms of self-spot

third-person singular presentself-spots
present participleself-spotting
past participleself-spotted
pastself-spotted

Origin of self-spot

From self- + spot (“to support or assist a maneuver”).

Questions about self-spot

What does self-spot mean?
Self-spot means to protect oneself from injury that can result from attempting to lift too much weight.
What part of speech is self-spot?
Self-spot is a verb.
What is the past tense of self-spot?
The past tense of self-spot is self-spotted.

Words near self-spot in the dictionary

  1. self-soaring
  2. self-soars
  3. self-sow
  4. self-sown
  5. self-splicing
  6. self-spot
  7. self-spots
  8. self-spotted
  9. self-spotting
  10. self-standing
  11. self-starter

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