carbo loading

1. 1.

   a diet of foods high in starch that increases carbohydrate reserves in muscles

   “carbo loading is used by endurance athletes just before competing”

   Synonymscarbohydrate loading

   Broaderdiet

Questions about carbo loading

What does carbo loading mean?

carbo loading means "a diet of foods high in starch that increases carbohydrate reserves in muscles".

What is another word for carbo loading?

Close synonyms include carbohydrate loading. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carbo loading a common word?

carbo loading is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.