Other forms: warm-ups
A warm-up is the gentle movements before sport that wake your muscles up. A quick warm-up, warm-up exercises, skip the warm-up.
The evidence favours moving through the range you are about to use rather than holding long stretches, which can briefly weaken the muscle. A warm-up act is the performer who goes on before the main one. Note the hyphen in the noun, which the verb warm up drops.
1nounwarm-upGentle exercise done before sport.
“Do a short warm-up of jogging and stretching before you start the race.”
warm-up is a preparation.
Also accepted in games: warmup
a deverbal from warm up.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Sports & Fitness, Games & Toys, Dance