sit-up

1. 1.

   a stomach exercise in which a person sits up from a supine position without using the arms for leverage

   Broaderstomach exercise

Questions about sit-up

What does sit-up mean?

sit-up means "a stomach exercise in which a person sits up from a supine position without using the arms for leverage".

How many syllables are in sit-up?

sit-up has 2 syllables: si-t-up. The stress falls on "si".

Is sit-up a common word?

sit-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.