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warm down

warm down verb: to perform gentle exercise at the end of a training session before cooling off.

Verb

warm down (third-person singular simple present warms down, present participle warming down, simple past and past participle warmed down)

  1. To perform gentle exercise at the end of a training session before cooling off.
    • 5.Warm down with 15 minutes of gentle spinning.2009 April 10, Tim Don, Hollie Avil, Glenn Cook, “Secret triathlon training shortcuts to improve your race speed”, in The Guardian

Forms of warm down

third-person singular presentwarms down
present participlewarming down
past participlewarmed down
pastwarmed down

Questions about warm down

What does warm down mean?
Warm down means to perform gentle exercise at the end of a training session before cooling off.
What part of speech is warm down?
Warm down is a verb.
What is the past tense of warm down?
The past tense of warm down is warmed down.

Words near warm down in the dictionary

  1. warm body
  2. warm boot
  3. warm boots
  4. warm carl
  5. warm dark matter
  6. warm down
  7. warm front
  8. warm fronts
  9. warm fuzzies
  10. warm fuzzy
  11. warm hatch

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