warm-up

1. 1.

   exercising in preparation for strenuous activity

   Synonymstune-upprolusion

   Broaderpreparation

Questions about warm-up

What does warm-up mean?

warm-up means "exercising in preparation for strenuous activity".

How many syllables are in warm-up?

warm-up has 2 syllables: war-m-up. The stress falls on "war".

What is another word for warm-up?

Close synonyms include tune-up, prolusion. 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-up a common word?

warm-up is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.