barbell

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a bar to which heavy discs are attached at each end; used in weightlifting

Blend of bar + dumbbell. The piercing is named after the exercise equipment, because of the visual resemblance.

It was like suddenly discovering that you'd been lifting two-hundred-pound barbells and not knowing it. — Occasion ... for Disaster, Randall Garrett
Against the walls stood companies of barbells and Indian clubs; the dumbbells were piled in one corner: and in the midst of countless hillocks of gymnasium shoes and sweaters and singlets in untidy brown parcels there stood the stout leatherjacketed vaulting horse waiting its turn to be carried up on the stage and set in the middle of the winning team at the end of the gymnastic display. — A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce

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