Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of chinning oneself, practiced especially as a fitness exercise.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an arm exercise performed by pulling oneself up on a horizontal bar until the chin is level with or above the bar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US An
exercise done for strengthening thearms andback , in which one lifts one's ownweight while hanging from abar . It can be defined more restrictively on criteria like the arms starting at lock-out, or the chin requiring contact with the bottom of the bar, or touching the neck to the bar.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an arm exercise performed by pulling yourself up on a horizontal bar until your chin is level with the bar
- verb raise oneself while hanging from one's hands until one's chin is level with the support bar
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Examples
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Chin chin-up: This is £16-worth of lager in 2060 terms, so don't spill a drop.
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In the fitness studio behind his home, Tony Horton grabbed a chin-up bar and lifted himself, attempting to execute a routine called the gyrating lever.
Playing Mix-and-Match With Muscle Moves Kevin Helliker 2012
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Bust a Move Jason Lee A corncob chin-up requires an exerciser at the top of a pull-up to shift his body right, then left.
Playing Mix-and-Match With Muscle Moves Kevin Helliker 2012
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It's good to see everyone together, he said, looking at everyone but me, and when we shook hands, he looked past me and then began a long story about Florida horse racing, and Pop slid out of his chair, walked to the living room doorway, and, huffing like a locomotive, did a chin-up on the door frame.
I Never Was George L. Chieffet 2010
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In fact, he does just the opposite: He shows them ways to cheat, such as doing push-ups on one's knees, planting one leg on a chair while doing pull-ups and using exercise bands in place of chin-up bars.
Playing Mix-and-Match With Muscle Moves Kevin Helliker 2012
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The corncob chin-up, at right, requires an exerciser at the top of a pull-up to shift his body right, then left, as if the pole were a cob off which he is eating corn.
Playing Mix-and-Match With Muscle Moves Kevin Helliker 2012
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Yet aside from some lamenting of lost manners, no one seems to miss the old days very much, not even the WASPs, who have more or less tried to be chin-up.
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Do they adopt a chin-up attitude and soldier on, having traveled too far on the science path to turn around?
Dr. Larry Dossey: Is the Universe Merely a Statistical Accident? 2010
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Then there's Power 90 Extreme dubbed "P90X" an intensive three-month DVD workout (with resistance bands, chin-up bar and other small equipment) and nutrition plan that's sold 2.5 million units since its 2005 launch.
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Do they adopt a chin-up attitude and soldier on, having traveled too far on the science path to turn around?
Dr. Larry Dossey: Is the Universe Merely a Statistical Accident? 2010
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