WEIGHTLIFTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does weightlifting mean? 

• WEIGHTLIFTING (noun)
  The noun WEIGHTLIFTING has 1 sense:

1. bodybuilding by exercise that involves lifting weights

  Familiarity information: WEIGHTLIFTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEIGHTLIFTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bodybuilding by exercise that involves lifting weights

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

weightlift; weightlifting

Hypernyms ("weightlifting" is a kind of...):

anaerobic exercise; bodybuilding; muscle building; musclebuilding (exercise that builds muscles through tension)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "weightlifting"):

jerk (raising a weight from shoulder height to above the head by straightening the arms)

bench press (a weightlift in which you lie on your back on a bench and press weights upward)

clean; clean and jerk (a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead)

military press; press (a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead)

snatch (a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted overhead in one rapid motion)

Derivation:

weightlift (lift weights)