bench press

See also:benchpressandbench-press

English

A man performing a bench press.

Alternative forms

• benchpress

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈbɛntʃ.pɹɛs/

Noun

benchpress(pluralbench presses)

1. (weightlifting)Anexerciseperformed bypressingthe weight of abarbellaway from one's body while lying on abench.
   • 1974,Charles Gaines, George Butler,Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding,page18:

     ...Nubret has pushed and pulled maniacally at iron while sustaining a diet that would explode an ordinary metabolism—doing for that renowned chest, for instance, forty sets of twentybenchpresses(pushing 210 pounds off his chest a total of eight hundred times every other day)[…]

Translations

exercise

• Azerbaijani:sinədən qaldırma,ağırlığısinədən qaldırma
• Bulgarian:лежа́нка(bg)f(ležánka)
• Danish:please add this translation if you can
• Finnish:penkkipunnerrus(fi),penkki(fi),penkkaus
• French:développé couché(fr)m
• German:Bankdrücken(de)n
• Hungarian:fekvenyomás(hu)
• Irish:ardú binsem
• Portuguese:supino(pt)m
• Russian:жим лёжа(žim ljóža)
• Spanish:banco de prensa,prensa de bancof
• Swedish:bänkpress
• Tamil:please add this translation if you can
• Turkish:yatarak halter kaldırma

Verb

benchpress(third-person singular simple presentbench presses,present participlebench pressing,simple past and past participlebench pressed)

1. (weightlifting)Topressthe weight of abarbellaway from one's body while lying on abench.
   • 1988,Frederick C. Hatfield, “Powersource: Ties that bind”, inIronman,47 (6):21:

     I went home andbench pressed30 pounds more than I had ever done before.

   • 2017November 16,Jo Ellison,“Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, inFinancial Times‎^[1]:

     And I’m definitely getting stronger. I can nowbench press— oh — at least 10 kilos without my arms collapsing underneath me.

Synonyms

• (exercise):bench

Derived terms

• bench(verb)

Related terms

• press

See also

• chest press
• press up