Definitions
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- verb lift weights
- noun bodybuilding by exercise that involves lifting weights
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Examples
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He writes: I weightlift regularly and have packed on quite a bit of muscle mass.
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In fact, I live in Germany, and I go to a fancy gym where the Berlin Philharmonic plays Mahler symphonies while I weightlift and there are no body wash dispensers in the bathroom but rather extremely well-built men in sarongs offering you gold-plated soap on a silver platter.
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He can, or could at least, weightlift 200 pounds plus his age, for example when he was 67 he benched 267 pounds.
Swing State Project 2009
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The gym is banned, but Mark can still weightlift at home.
Reality TV Magazine 2009
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