Weightlifting is lifting the heaviest possible load overhead. Olympic weightlifting, take up weightlifting, a weightlifting record.
The Olympic sport has two lifts, the snatch and the clean and jerk, and both are done in one movement from the floor to overhead. It is a sport of technique as much as strength, and the speed under the bar is what separates lifters.
1nounweightliftingLifting the heaviest possible load overhead.
“She took up weightlifting and can now lift more than her own body weight.”
weightlifting is a sport.
Weight plus lifting, from the nineteenth-century strongman shows the sport grew out of.
From weight + lifting.
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