chin-up

Example Sentences

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"We also had a chin-up bar and would try to do maximum chin-ups. We were so lucky to have training buddies to push each other along."

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2023

An expectation to do that extra chin-up when your arms burn can and should coexist with an expectation to seek help when you’re experiencing depression.

From Slate • May 31, 2022

Later she installed a chin-up bar that still fills a doorway in her suburban Sacramento home.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2021

The second silver-medalist—the surgeon—adopted a chin-up, impassive look, the same stoic face he wore on the golf course.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 1, 2019

First I checked out Fang, standing in the bathroom doorway, one arm resting on the chin-up bar we’d mounted there a few years back to keep his pipes steely.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx