Usually means: Extending muscles to increase flexibility.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. stretching: Merriam-Webster
  2. stretching: Collins English Dictionary
  3. stretching: Vocabulary.com
  4. Stretching, stretching: Wordnik
  5. stretching: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. stretching: Wiktionary
  7. stretching: Dictionary.com
  8. stretching: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Stretching (body piercing), Stretching (disambiguation), Stretching (piercing), Stretching: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Stretching: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. stretching: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. stretching: Rhymezone
  13. Stretching: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. stretching: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. stretching: FreeDictionary.org
  16. stretching: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Stretching: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  2. stretching: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stretching (body piercing), stretching: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. stretching: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. stretching: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)
  2. stretching: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stretching: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. stretching: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stretching: Body Building

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Definitions from Wiktionary (stretching)

noun:  The act by which something is stretched.
noun:  A form of physical exercise in which a specific skeletal muscle (or muscle group) is deliberately elongated to its fullest length in order to improve the muscle's felt elasticity and reaffirm comfortable muscle tone.
adjective:  Requiring a high level of effort or performance.

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