chinning

It was also found that, outside of weight-lifting and inordinate "chinning" and apparent great strength on the parallel bars, these men were not so valuable as the lesser muscled but more supple candidates.

Keeping Fit All the Way Walter Camp 1892

I find this incident in my notes (I suppose from "chinning" in hospital with some sick or wounded soldier who knew of it):

November Boughs ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855

I find this incident in my notes (I suppose from "chinning" in hospital with some sick or wounded soldier who knew of it):

Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855

"An 'I reckon that new-comer you've ben chinning with could explain if HE had a mind to."

THE MAN ON THE OTHER BANK 2010

Two years later, the former Bolton bouncer and third Mitchell brother Stig Tofting was sacked by his Danish club AGF for alledgedly chinning four of his team-mates.

The Knowledge | Who were the first team to use a Christmas tree formation? | John Ashdown 2010

"Oh, and if you happen to be chinning with Jake, give him a friendly howdy from me and mention that he still owes me two hundred clams for some confidential news I passed along to him way last --"

Kahen no Ame H-M Brown 2010

Back home, I got some exercise setting up the chinning bar.

November 24th, 2007 2007

Bought a chinning bar, which I hadn't been looking for.

November 24th, 2007 2007

Yeah, if you can hang from a chinning bar for five minutes, there is nothing to keep you from hanging there for 40 days.

Rush and "O" Steven Barnes 2009

I hope it is from chinning and not from a tooth problem.

Archive 2009-05-07 FUZZARELLY 2009

The term is one that Liu came up with to describe her unique style of self-portraits, in which she snaps low-angled photos of an exaggerated double chin rather than well-curated, high-angled selfies.

This Woman Is ‘Chinning’ Her Way Around The World And Into Our Hearts Elyse Wanshel 2017