chin-up

1. 1.

   an arm exercise performed by pulling yourself up on a horizontal bar until your chin is level with the bar

   Synonymspull-up

   Broaderarm exercise

Questions about chin-up

What does chin-up mean?

chin-up means "an arm exercise performed by pulling yourself up on a horizontal bar until your chin is level with the bar".

How many syllables are in chin-up?

chin-up has 2 syllables: chi-n-up. The stress falls on "chi".

What is another word for chin-up?

Close synonyms include pull-up. 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 chin-up a common word?

chin-up 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.