Meanings
plural Swiss bars
- A bar to lift weight plates upon including additional vertically aligned handles.
Synonyms: football bar, multi-grip bar, neutral grip bar
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA bar to lift weight plates upon including additional vertically aligned handles.
Origin
Apparently in reference to the neutral Swiss foreign policy, as the most observable difference in performing a bench press with this bar is the neutral grip; perhaps reinforced in view of the complexity of a Swiss Army knife or even the stereotypic holes in Swiss cheese.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
Swiss bar. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Swiss%20bar
“Swiss bar.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Swiss%20bar. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Swiss bar,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Swiss%20bar.
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