muscle memory

1. 1.

   your memory for motor skills

   Synonymsmotor memory

   Broaderlong-term memory

Questions about muscle memory

What does muscle memory mean?

muscle memory means "your memory for motor skills".

What is another word for muscle memory?

Close synonyms include motor memory. 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 muscle memory a common word?

muscle memory 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.