flye

F4L1Y4E1
UK, US/flaɪ/

noun

An exercise performed by moving extended arms through an arc while the elbows are kept at a fixed angle, especially those done to exercise the chest muscles.

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Meanings

flye1

nounflye (plural flyes)

plural flyes · alternative fly

  1. hobbiesAn exercise performed by moving extended arms through an arc while the elbows are kept at a fixed angle, especially those done to exercise the chest muscles.

    […]then there will be five sets of presses on an inclined bench, five sets of dumbbell flyes and two sets of twenty cable flyes—all designed to bulk, shape, striate and clarify the pectoralis muscles of the chest[…]

    1974, Charles Gaines, George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 22

Flye2

proper nounFlye (plural Flyes)

plural Flyes

  1. A surname.

Origin

Variant spelling of Flye.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with flye

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Sounds the same

fly

Anagrams

fylefleyelfy
Cite this entry
APA

flye. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flye

MLA

“flye.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flye. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “flye,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flye.

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