cat-cow

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Noun

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cat-cow (plural cat-cows)

  1. (yoga) A stretching motion that incorporates the cat and cow asanas, in which a person arches their back first in one direction, and then the other.

Verb

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cat-cow (third-person singular simple present cat-cows, present participle cat-cowing, simple past and past participle cat-cowed)

  1. (yoga) To engage in cat-cow stretching.
    • 2010, Ashley Koff, “Yoga for Foodies: A Most Excellent Combination”, in HuffPost:
      Well, actually, as attendees learned while we cat-cowed and downward-dog’d, the real instigator was David’s loss to his girlfriend in a common “debate”...
    • 2012, Andrew Belcher, Mind Body Bike: Yoga and the Art of Slowing Down to Speed Up"cat-cow":
      Continue to Cat-Cow (flex and extend) your spine and experience your shoulder blades sliding together and apart.
    • 2018, Amber Leigh Williams, Navy SEAL's Match"cat-cowing"#v=onepage&q="cat-cowing":
      Cat-cowing is great first thing in the morning,” she said.
    • 2018, Aimee Molloy, The Perfect Mother: A Novel"cat-cowing":
      We continued to meet, registering for the same birthing classes, the same CPR course, cat-cowing next to one another at the same yoga studio.