weightlifting

See also: weight-lifting and weight lifting

English

Weightlifting

Alternative forms

• weight lifting

Etymology

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

form of exercise

• Danish: vægtløftning
• Finnish: painonnosto (fi)
• French: musculation (fr) f
• Georgian: ძალოსნობა (ʒalosnoba)
• Greek: άρση βαρών (el) f (ársi varón)
• Hungarian: súlyemelés (hu)
• Italian: sollevamento pesi (it) m
• Japanese: 重量挙げ (ja) (じゅうりょうあげ, jūryōage)
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• Macedonian: кревање тегови n (krevanje tegovi)
• Norwegian: vektløftning
• Portuguese: levantamento de peso m
• Romanian: haltere f pl
• Russian: тяжёлая атле́тика f (tjažólaja atlétika), подня́тие тя́жестей n (podnjátije tjážestej)
• Spanish: levantamiento de pesas m
• Swedish: tyngdlyftning (sv) c

sport in which competitors lift heavy weights

• Armenian: ծանրամարտ (hy) (canramart), ծանր աթլետիկա (canr atʻletika)
• Catalan: halterofília f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 舉重／举重 (zh) (jǔzhòng), 举重 (zh) (jǔzhòng)

• Czech: vzpírání n
• Estonian: tõstmine
• Finnish: painonnosto (fi)
• French: haltérophilie (fr) f
• Georgian: ძალოსნობა (ʒalosnoba)
• German: Gewichtheben (de) n
• Greek: άρση βαρών (el) f (ársi varón)
• Hungarian: súlyemelés (hu)
• Italian: sollevamento pesi (it) m
• 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 (ueitorifutingu)
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• Korean: 역도 (ko) (yeokdo) (力道 (ko))
• Macedonian: кревање тегови n (krevanje tegovi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vektløfting m or f

  Nynorsk: vektløfting f, vektlyfting f

• Persian: وزنه‌برداری (fa) (vazne-bardâri)
• Polish: podnoszenie ciężarów n
• Portuguese: levantamento de peso m
• Romanian: halterofilie (ro) f
• Russian: тяжёлая атле́тика f (tjažólaja atlétika)
• Spanish: halterofilia f
• Swedish: tyngdlyftning (sv) c

See also

• powerlifting
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