bench press

See also: benchpress and bench-press

English

A man performing a bench press.

Alternative forms

• benchpress

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛntʃ.pɹɛs/

Noun

bench press (plural bench presses)

1. (weightlifting) An exercise performed by pressing the weight of a barbell away from one's body while lying on a bench.
   • 1974, Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 18:

     ...Nubret has pushed and pulled maniacally at iron while sustaining a diet that would explode an ordinary metabolism—doing for that renowned chest, for instance, forty sets of twenty benchpresses (pushing 210 pounds off his chest a total of eight hundred times every other day) […]

Translations

exercise

• Finnish: penkkipunnerrus (fi)
• French: développé couché (fr) m
• German: Bankdrücken (de) n
• Hungarian: fekvenyomás (hu)
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• Irish: ardú binse m
• Portuguese: supino (pt) m
• Russian: жим (ru) (žim)
• Spanish: banco de prensa, prensa de banco f

Verb

1. (weightlifting) To press the weight of a barbell away from one's body while lying on a bench.
   • 1988, Frederick C. Hatfield, "Powersource: Ties that bind", Ironman 47 (6): 21.

     I went home and bench pressed 30 pounds more than I had ever done before.

Synonyms

• (exercise): bench

Derived terms

• bench (verb)

Related terms

• press

See also

• chest press
• press up