punchbag

British

/ ˈpʌntʃˌbæɡ /

noun

Also called (US and Canadian): punching bag. a suspended stuffed bag that is punched for exercise, esp boxing training

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The white-haired veteran then demonstrates the technique with a series of perfectly-delivered powerful blows to a punchbag mounted on the gym wall.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2025

Some television news showed looped videos of Thaksin exercising in the grounds of his Dubai mansion late last year, pounding energetically at a punchbag while attempting an occasional high kick.

From Reuters ● Aug. 23, 2023

Nearby, dust fills the air as another young boxer strikes a battered punchbag.

From BBC ● May 16, 2023

Yet Pollard and her real life peers weren’t just a punchbag for the press.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2017

He also became the preferred punchbag for climate-change cynics in search of a straw man.

From Nature ● Jul. 25, 2017

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