weightlifting
IPA: wˈeɪtɫɪftɪŋ
noun
- A form of exercise in which weights are lifted.
- (sports) A sport in which competitors lift heavy weights in two events: the snatch and the clean and jerk.
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Examples of "weightlifting" in Sentences
- Weightlifting is one of the more traditional sports.
- She joined the provincial weightlifting team in 1996.
- On the other hand, all the weightlifting is paying off.
- Tapavicza took last place in the weightlifting competition.
- The event was organised by the Asian Weightlifting Federation.
- Competition was held in the Nikaia Olympic Weightlifting Hall.
- Hackenschmidt was also a pioneer in the field of weightlifting.
- It served as the weightlifting venue of the 1976 Summer Olympics.
- He played football, wrestled and dabbled in weightlifting in school.
- In the 1964 Summer Olympics, the weightlifting events took place there.
- It was the site for the weightlifting competition for the 1984 Summer Olympics.
- However, encouraging weightlifting is also useful - when force meets an immovable object …
- I was on my third set of reps in weightlifting, and I got up to #10, and I said, "To hell with it."
- The reason I stayed in weightlifting is because I really wanted to see if I could lift after surgery.
- So I suggest you keep in mind a distinction the athletes make: There's "weightlifting" and "weight lifting."
- Jang was offered an initial signing fee of W500 million to W600 million and an annual salary of W200 million, which is double what she was paid in the past and the highest in Korean weightlifting history.
- After watching Pussy Boy hilariously "weightlifting" a bar with no weights on it at all, Lane, aka The Beast, bench-pressed 325 pounds, which apparently he achieves by talking to himself like's schizophrenic.
- And with that as a guide, this week's honor goes to 33-year-old Melanie Roach, who qualified for the USA Olympic team in weightlifting at the trials in Atlanta last weekend eight years after failing to complete the Sydney trials due to a back injury.
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