pushup

1. 1.

   an arm exercise performed lying face to the floor and pushing the body up and down with the arms

   Synonymspress-up

   Broaderarm exercise

   Narrowerwidegrip pushup

Other forms of pushup

plural

pushups·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pushup

What does pushup mean?

pushup means "an arm exercise performed lying face to the floor and pushing the body up and down with the arms".

How many syllables are in pushup?

pushup has 2 syllables: pus-hup. The stress falls on "pus". In IPA it is /ˈpʊˌʃʌp/.

What is another word for pushup?

Close synonyms include press-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 pushup a common word?

pushup 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.