oxygen debt

1. 1.

   a cumulative deficit of oxygen resulting from intense exercise; the deficit must be made up when the body returns to rest

   Broaderphysical condition

Questions about oxygen debt

What does oxygen debt mean?

oxygen debt means "a cumulative deficit of oxygen resulting from intense exercise; the deficit must be made up when the body returns to rest".

Is oxygen debt a common word?

oxygen debt 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.