Usually means: Exercise involving horizontal body stabilization.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word plank:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. plank: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. plank: Merriam-Webster
  3. plank: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. plank: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. plank: Collins English Dictionary
  6. plank: Vocabulary.com
  7. Plank, plank: Wordnik
  8. plank: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Plank, plank: Wiktionary
  10. plank: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. plank: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. plank: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Plank, plank: Dictionary.com
  14. plank: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. plank: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Plank (exercise), Plank (wood), Plank: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Plank: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. plank: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. plank: Rhymezone
  20. plank, plank (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. plank: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Plank, Plank: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. plank: FreeDictionary.org
  24. plank: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. plank: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Food Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Plank, plank: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. plank: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. plank, plank, plank, plank, plank: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. plank: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. The Plank: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick.
noun:  (figurative) A political issue that is of concern to a faction or a party of the people and the political position that is taken on that issue.
noun:  Physical exercise in which one holds a pushup position for a measured length of time.
noun:  (British, slang) A stupid person, idiot.
noun:  That which supports or upholds.
verb:  (transitive) To cover something with planking.
verb:  (transitive) To bake (fish, etc.) on a piece of cedar lumber.
verb:  (transitive, colloquial) To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash.
verb:  (transitive) To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
verb:  To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.
verb:  (intransitive) To pose for a photograph while lying rigid, face down, arms at side, in an unusual place.
noun:  A surname.

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