Usually means: Exercise involving pushing body upward.
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  1. press-up: Merriam-Webster
  2. press-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. press-up, press-up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. press-up: Vocabulary.com
  5. press-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. press-up: Wiktionary
  7. press-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. press-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. press-up: Dictionary.com
  10. Press-up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. press-up: Rhymezone
  12. Press-up: Britih-American Dictionary
  13. press-up: FreeDictionary.org
  14. press-up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. press-up: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. press-up: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Synonym of push-up (“exercise”)

Similar:
pushup, push-up, modified push-up, push-up bar, plank, press, pullup, chest press, underpush, lat pulldown, more...

Opposite:
sit-up, crunch, plank, leg raise

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Similar:
pushup, push-up, modified push-up, push-up bar, plank, press, pullup, chest press, underpush, lat pulldown, more...

Opposite:
sit-up, crunch, plank, leg raise



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