weightlifting

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative forms 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Synonyms 1.2.2 Translations 1.3 See also

[edit] English

[edit] Alternative forms

• weight lifting

[edit] Noun

weightlifting (uncountable)

1. (sports) A sport in which competitors lift heavy weights in two events: the snatch and the clean and jerk.
   • 1974, Arnold Schwarzenegger, in Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron, page 21.

     Then I started weight lifting through the other sports and I enjoyed it the most […] but I found out I was too tall. So I quit that and went into bodybuilding.

2. A form of exercise in which weights are lifted.

[edit] Synonyms

• (form of exercise): weight training

[edit] Translations

[edit] See also

• powerlifting