weightlifting

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Weightlifting

Alternative forms

• weight lifting

Noun

weightlifting (uncountable)

1. A form of exercise in which weights are lifted.
2. (sports) A sport in which competitors lift heavy weights in two events: the snatch and the clean and jerk.

Synonyms

• (form of exercise): weight training

Translations

sport in which competitors lift heavy weights

• Armenian: ծանրամարտ (hy) (canramart)
• Catalan: halterofília (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 舉重 (cmn), 举重 (cmn) (jǔzhòng)

• Czech: vzpírání (cs) n
• Finnish: painonnosto (fi)
• French: haltérophilie (fr) f
• German: Gewichtheben (de) n
• Greek: άρση βαρών (el) (ársi varón) f

• Hungarian: súlyemelés (hu)
• Japanese: 重量挙げ (ja) (じゅうりょうあげ, jūryōage), ウエイトリフティング (ja) (ueitorifutingu)
• Korean: 역도 (ko) (yeokdo) (力道 (ko))
• Macedonian: кревање тегови (mk) (krévanje tégovi) n
• Polish: podnoszenie ciężarów (pl) n
• Russian: тяжёлая атлетика (ru) (tjažólaja atlétika) f
• Spanish: halterofilia (es) f

form of exercise

• Finnish: painonnosto (fi)
• French: musculation (fr) f
• Greek: άρση βαρών (el) (ársi varón) f

• Hungarian: súlyemelés (hu)
• Japanese: 重量挙げ (ja) (じゅうりょうあげ, jūryōage)
• Macedonian: кревање тегови (mk) (krévanje tégovi) n
• Russian: тяжёлая атлетика (ru) (tjažólaja atlétika) f, поднятие тяжестей (ru) (podnjátije tjážestej) n

See also

• powerlifting
• Weightlifting on Wikiversity. Wikiversity