"sit-up" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈsɪt.ʌp/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-sit-up.wav [US] Forms: sit-ups [plural]
Etymology: Deverbal from sit up. Etymology templates: {{deverbal|en|sit up}} Deverbal from sit up Head templates: {{en-noun}} sit-up (plural sit-ups)
  1. An exercise in which the abdominal muscles are contracted, bringing the torso of a person lying down to a more upright position. Categories (topical): Exercise Synonyms: situp, sit up Coordinate_terms: crunch [exercise, sports, hobbies, lifestyle], trunk curl [exercise, sports, hobbies, lifestyle] Translations (exercise in which the abdominal muscles are contracted): abdominals [masculine, plural] (Catalan), 䖙倒練腰 [Hokkien] (Chinese), 䖙倒练腰 (the-tó liān io) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 仰臥起坐 (Chinese Cantonese), 仰卧起坐 (joeng⁵ ngo⁶ hei² zo⁶) (Chinese Cantonese), 仰臥起坐 (Chinese Mandarin), 仰卧起坐 (yǎngwò-qǐzuò) (Chinese Mandarin), sedoleh [masculine] (Czech), lehsed [masculine] (Czech), kõhulihas (Estonian), istumaannousu (Finnish), redressement assis [masculine, plural] (French), Rumpfbeuge [feminine] (German), Rumpfbeugen [neuter] (German), Rumpfheben [neuter] (German), Sit-up [masculine] (German), felülés (Hungarian), addominali [masculine, plural] (Italian), 腹筋 (fukkin) (Japanese), シットアップ (shittoappu) (Japanese), 윗몸 일으키기 (winmom ireukigi) (Korean), pritūpimas [masculine] (Lithuanian), brzuszki [nonvirile] (Polish), abdominal [masculine] (Portuguese), abdomen [neuter] (Romanian), пресс (press) [masculine] (Russian), trbušnjak [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), trebušnjak [masculine] (Slovene), abdominal [masculine] (Spanish)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.