chin-up
Example Sentences
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"We also had a chin-up bar and would try to do maximum chin-ups. We were so lucky to have training buddies to push each other along."
From BBC • Sep. 27, 2023
An expectation to do that extra chin-up when your arms burn can and should coexist with an expectation to seek help when you’re experiencing depression.
From Slate • May 31, 2022
Later she installed a chin-up bar that still fills a doorway in her suburban Sacramento home.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2021
First, spend as much time as possible hanging upside down on the chin-up bar at the gym.
From Washington Post • Jun. 19, 2019
Although she was a former softball player who had wrestled the controls in airplanes in the worst weather conditions, she could not pull her body weight up to the chin-up bar.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.