chin-up
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of chin-up
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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Who needs umbrellas when you’ve got a tanning bed, a chin-up bar, beef-tallow stockpiles, and a gallon of only-sometimes-poisonous raw milk?
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
"We also had a chin-up bar and would try to do maximum chin-ups. We were so lucky to have training buddies to push each other along."
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2023
Later she installed a chin-up bar that still fills a doorway in her suburban Sacramento home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2021
On the outdoor gym equipment below the Taft Bridge, some exercisers made use of the chin-up bar, without gloves, ignoring signs stating that the equipment is closed because of covid-19.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2020
Although she was a former softball player who had wrestled the controls in airplanes in the worst weather conditions, she could not pull her body weight up to the chin-up bar.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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