Indian club

noun

Each of a pair of wooden clubs shaped like bowling pins, swung in certain patterns to exercise the arms.

First used 19th c.
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Meanings

nounIndian club (plural Indian clubs)

plural Indian clubs

  1. historicalEach of a pair of wooden clubs shaped like bowling pins, swung in certain patterns to exercise the arms.First known use 19th c.

    Against the walls stood companies of barbells and Indian clubs; the dumbbells were piled in one corner […].

    1916, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC
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APA

Indian club. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Indian%20club

MLA

“Indian club.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Indian%20club. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Indian club,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Indian%20club.

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