deadlift

English

Etymology

dead +‎ lift

Noun

deadlift (plural deadlifts)

1. (weightlifting) A weight training exercise where one lifts a loaded barbell off the ground from a stabilized bent-over position.
   • 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii

     I never did a squat or a deadlift—the exercises I now know are best for building a bigger, stronger, more athletic-looking body—because I had access to leg-extension, leg-curl, and leg-press machines.

2. Any lift performed without help or leverage.
3. (figurative, by extension) An effort made under discouraging conditions.

Derived terms

• Romanian deadlift
• sumo deadlift

Translations

weight training exercise

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• Azerbaijani: ağırlığı yerdən qaldırma, yerdən qaldırma
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• Bulgarian: мъ́ртва тя́га f (mǎ́rtva tjága)
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• Danish: dødløft
• Finnish: maastaveto (fi), maastanosto
• French: soulevé de terre (fr) m
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• German: Kreuzheben (de) n
• Hebrew: דדליפט m (dedlift)
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• Icelandic: réttstöðulyfta f
• Italian: stacco da terra m
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• Russian: станова́я тя́га (ru) f (stanovája tjága)
• Spanish: peso muerto m
• Swedish: marklyft (sv)
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• Turkish: deadlift
• Ukrainian: ме́ртве зве́дення n (mértve zvédennja)

Verb

deadlift (third-person singular simple present deadlifts, present participle deadlifting, simple past and past participle deadlifted)

1. (transitive) To lift a barbell while moving the body from a bent-over position to a standing position.

Translations

to lift

• Dutch: deadliften

See also

• clean and jerk
• squat