warm up

1. 1.

   performing mild exercises to prepare for some more strenuous activity

   “the singers have to warm up”

   “the marathon runner did not warm up and hurt himself”

   Broaderpreparation

Questions about warm up

What does warm up mean?

warm up means "run until the normal working temperature is reached". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for warm up?

Close synonyms include warm, limber up, loosen 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 warm up a common word?

warm up is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.