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bodyweight

noun

Etymology

From body + weight.

  1. inherited from *weǵʰ-✻
  2. inherited from *wihtiz✻
  3. inherited from wiht
  4. inherited from weight
  5. compounded as bodyweight — “body + weight”

Definitions

  1. The weight or mass of an organism.

  2. Employing (only) a person's own weight as resistance to movement for the purpose of…

    Employing (only) a person's own weight as resistance to movement for the purpose of physical exercise.

    • Without access to a gym, Steve focused on bodyweight work.
    • As a warmup, Jennifer did ten bodyweight squats.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bodyweight. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA