weightlifting

See also: weight-lifting and weight lifting

English

Weightlifting

Alternative forms

weight lifting

Etymology

weight +‎ lifting

Noun

weightlifting (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
Georgian: ძალოსნობა (ʒalosnoba)
Greek: άρση βαρών (el) f (ársi varón)
Hungarian: súlyemelés (hu)
Italian: sollevamento pesi (it) 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
Georgian: ძალოსნობა (ʒalosnoba)
German: Gewichtheben (de) n
Greek: άρση βαρών (el) f (ársi varón)
Hungarian: súlyemelés (hu)
Italian: sollevamento pesi (it) 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 or 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 (sv) c

See also

powerlifting
weightlifting on Wikiversity.Wikiversity

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