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FREE WEIGHT

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Dictionary entry overview: What does free weight mean?

• FREE WEIGHT (noun)
The noun FREE WEIGHT has 1 sense:

1. sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms

Familiarity information: FREE WEIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FREE WEIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

exercising weight; free weight; weight

Hypernyms ("free weight" is a kind of...):

sports equipment (equipment needed to participate in a particular sport)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "free weight"):

barbell (a bar to which heavy discs are attached at each end; used in weightlifting)

dumbbell (an exercising weight; two spheres connected by a short bar that serves as a handle)

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