warm the bench

1. 1.

   be out of the game

   “Miller was riding the bench in Saturday's game”

   Synonymsride the bench

   Broaderidle

   sport

Questions about warm the bench

What does warm the bench mean?

warm the bench means "be out of the game".

What is another word for warm the bench?

Close synonyms include ride the bench. 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 warm the bench a common word?

warm the bench 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.