Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bench press

/ˈbɛntʃˌpɹɛs/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.32 in modern English

Syllables: bench -press
IPA: /ˈbɛntʃˌpɹɛs/

19

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An exercise performed by pressing the weight of a barbell away from one's body while lying on a bench.

verb

To press the weight of a barbell away from one's body while lying on a bench.

Example Sentences

"...Nubret has pushed and pulled maniacally at iron while sustaining a diet that would explode an ordinary metabolism—doing for that renowned chest, for instance, forty sets of twenty benchpresses (pushing 210 pounds off his chest a total of eight hundred times every other day)[…]"
"I went home and bench pressed 30 pounds more than I had ever done before."
"And I’m definitely getting stronger. I can now bench press — oh — at least 10 kilos without my arms collapsing underneath me."

Inflected Forms

bench presses (plural) benchpress (alternative) bench presses (present, singular) bench pressing (participle, present) bench pressed (participle, past) bench pressed (past)

Derived Forms

bench

Phrases

chest press press up

Frequently Paired Words

press chest press press up

Synonyms

bench

Questions

How do you pronounce bench press?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈbɛntʃˌpɹɛs/.
What does bench press mean?: An exercise performed by pressing the weight of a barbell away from one's body while lying on a bench.

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