WARM-UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does warm-up mean? 

• WARM-UP (noun)
  The noun WARM-UP has 1 sense:

1. exercising in preparation for strenuous activity

  Familiarity information: WARM-UP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WARM-UP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exercising in preparation for strenuous activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

prolusion; tune-up; warm-up

Hypernyms ("warm-up" is a kind of...):

preparation; readying (the activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose)

Derivation:

warm up (make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity)

warm up (cause to do preliminary exercises so as to stretch the muscles)