Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bodyweight

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.68 in modern English

Syllables: body-weight
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The weight or mass of an organism.

Countable; Uncountable

adj

Employing (only) a person's own weight as resistance to movement for the purpose of physical exercise.

Example Sentences

"C57BL/6 mice (postnatal day 45–100) expressing enhanced GFP under the Thy-1 promoter in a small subset of cortical neurons (line GFP-M 18 ) were anaesthetized with an intraperitoneal injection of ketamine (0.14 mg per gram of bodyweight) and xylazine (0.01 mg per gram of bodyweight)."
"Without access to a gym, Steve focused on bodyweight work."
"As a warmup, Jennifer did ten bodyweight squats."

Etymology

From body + weight.

Usage

Inflected Forms

bodyweights (plural) body weight (alternative)

Questions

What does bodyweight mean?: The weight or mass of an organism.
Where does bodyweight come from?: From body + weight.

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