push up

Back then, I was pretty vain, and we would do this push-up routine before I went onstage so I’d look jacked.

He didn’t gloat when coaches dutifully dropped to the court to pay the push-up price.

“I’m doing 2½-minute planks,” said Deborah, referring to the exercise in which you get into a push-up position and hold it for as long as you can.

A western fence lizard performs its push-up display in Griffith Park.

For the “seal hop,” a popular event on Saturday, athletes get into a push-up or plank position and shuffle across the floor on their knuckles — the same stealthy crawl their ancestors used during a hunt to sneak up on unsuspecting seals napping on the ice.