pull-up

See also: pullup and pull up

English

Person doing a pull-up

Alternative forms

• pullup, pull up

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʊl.ʌp/

Noun

pull-up (plural pull-ups)

1. An exercise done for strengthening the arms and back in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar.
   1. specifically, such an exercise with palms away from the shoulders.

      There might be handles that are parallel to each other, giving you a grip option that's halfway in between a pull-up and chin-up.

      In a pull-up, your hands are pronated (which means palms are facing away from the body) and your grip is wider. In a chin-up, your hands are supinated (palms are toward the body) and your grip is more narrow.

      • 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii

        I did lots of push-ups and pull-ups, and my only regret is that I stopped doing them as a young adult when I finally got to work out in health clubs instead of my basement or garage.

2. (electronics) A pullup resistor.

Coordinate terms

• chin-up
• muscle-up

Related terms

• pull-up boy
• push-up
• sit-up

Translations

an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 引體上升 (jan⁵ tai² soeng⁶ sing¹), 引体上升 (jan⁵ tai² soeng⁶ sing¹)

  Mandarin: 引體向上／引体向上 (zh) (yǐntǐ xiàngshàng), 引体向上 (zh) (yǐntǐxiàngshàng)

• Czech: shyb m
• Danish: kropshævning c
• Estonian: lõuatõmme
• Finnish: leuanveto (fi)
• French: traction (fr) f
• German: Klimmzug (de) m
• Japanese: 懸垂 (けんすい, kensui)
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• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: prisitraukimas m
• Romanian: tracțiune (ro) f
• Russian: подтя́гивание (ru) n (podtjágivanije)
• Serbo-Croatian: zgib (sh) m, згиб m
• Spanish: barbilla (es) f, ejercicio de tracción m, dominada (es) f
• Swedish: räckhäv c
• Tagalog: pagbabaras
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Verb

pull-up (third-person singular simple present pull-ups, present participle pull-upping, simple past and past participle pull-upped)

1. To do a pull-up or pull oneself up similarly.
   • 2012, The Young Despondents. Jason M. Burns.

     With a sleek yet muscular build, Nick out pullupped everyone during physical fitness week

   • 2010, Designation Gold Rogue Warrior. Richard Marcinko

     From there, things were easy—well, relatively easy. I stood on the rail, reached up, grasped the floor of the balcony above, fingertip pull-upped onto the lip, found another four inches of finger purchase, raised myself high enough […]