Definify.com

Definition 2025

weightlifting

weightlifting

See also: weight-lifting and weight lifting

English

Weightlifting

Alternative forms

weight lifting

Noun

weight lifting ‎(uncountable)

A form of exercise in which weights are lifted.
(sports) A sport in which competitors lift heavy weights in two events: the snatch and the clean and jerk.

Synonyms

(form of exercise): weight training

Translations

form of exercise

Finnish: painonnosto (fi)
French: musculation (fr) f
Greek: άρση βαρών (el) f ‎(ársi varón)
Hungarian: súlyemelés (hu)
Italian: sollevamento pesi m

Japanese: 重量挙げ (ja) ‎(じゅうりょうあげ, jūryōage)
Macedonian: кревање тегови n ‎(krévanje tégovi)
Portuguese: levantamento de peso m
Romanian: haltere f pl
Russian: тяжёлая атле́тика f ‎(tjažólaja atlétika), подня́тие тя́жестей n ‎(podnjátije tjážestej)

sport in which competitors lift heavy weights

Armenian: ծանրամարտ (hy) ‎(canramart), ծանր աթլետիկա ‎(canr atʿletika)
Catalan: halterofília f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 舉重 (zh), 举重 (zh) ‎(jǔzhòng)
Czech: vzpírání n
Finnish: painonnosto (fi)
French: haltérophilie (fr) f
German: Gewichtheben (de) n
Greek: άρση βαρών (el) f ‎(ársi varón)
Hungarian: súlyemelés (hu)
Italian: sollevamento pesi m
Japanese: 重量挙げ (ja) ‎(じゅうりょうあげ, jūryōage), ウエイトリフティング ‎(ueitorifutingu)

Korean: 역도 (ko) ‎(yeokdo) (力道 (ko))
Macedonian: кревање тегови n ‎(krévanje tégovi)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: vektløfting m, f

Nynorsk: vektløfting f, vektlyfting f
Persian: وزنه‌برداری (fa) ‎(vazne-bardâri)
Polish: podnoszenie ciężarów n
Portuguese: levantamento de peso m
Romanian: halterofilie (ro) f
Russian: тяжёлая атле́тика f ‎(tjažólaja atlétika)
Spanish: halterofilia f
Swedish: tyngdlyftning c

See also

powerlifting
weightlifting on Wikiversity.Wikiversity