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push up
verb as in rise
Example Sentences
“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.
“They’re very coquettish. They reveal, they conceal. It’s like a push-up bra,” said 53-year-old Andrew Joseph.
Newsom claimed that Biden can catch a baseball in his sleep like Robert DeNiro in “Awakenings” while Jean-Pierre went over a presidential schedule that includes leading a SoulCycle class and winning a push-up contest.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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