tone up

1. 1.

   give a healthy elasticity to

   “Let's tone our muscles”

   Synonymstonestrengthen

   Broaderexercise

Questions about tone up

What does tone up mean?

tone up means "give a healthy elasticity to".

What is another word for tone up?

Close synonyms include tone, strengthen. 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 tone up a common word?

tone up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.