Meanings
nounweight lifting (uncountable)
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of weightlifting.
1974, Arnold Schwarzenegger, in Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron, page 21. Then I started weight lifting through the other sports and I enjoyed it the most […] but I found out I was too tall. So I quit that and went into bodybuilding.
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