push-up

[push-up] {n.}

An exercise to build strong arms and shoulders, in which you lie on your stomach and push your body up on your hands and toes.

* /At the age of seventy, Grandpa still does twenty push-ups every day./

* /The football team does push-ups every day./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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