"stretch one's legs" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-stretch one's legs.ogg [Australia] Forms: stretches one's legs [present, singular, third-person], stretching one's legs [participle, present], stretched one's legs [participle, past], stretched one's legs [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*|head=stretch one's legs}} stretch one's legs (third-person singular simple present stretches one's legs, present participle stretching one's legs, simple past and past participle stretched one's legs)
  1. (idiomatic) To walk about, especially after prolonged time sitting or lying down. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Gaits Translations (to walk about, especially after prolonged time sitting or lying down): s’étirer les jambes (French), sich die Beine vertreten (German), rozprostować kości [idiomatic] (Polish), a-şi dezmorţi picioarele (Romanian), a face o plimbare (Romanian), a face o plimbărică (Romanian), размя́ть но́ги (razmjátʹ nógi) [perfective] (Russian)

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