chinning bar

English
Doing chin-ups using a chinning bar

Noun

chinning bar (plural chinning bars)

  1. A bar used for doing chin-ups (exercise in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar)
    • 1966, Cynthia Ozick, Trust, New York: The New American Library, Part 4, Chapter 20, p. 545,
      He had lost one of the oars. The other was pulled tight against him like a chinning bar.
    • 1977, Timothy Findley, The Wars, New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1978, Prologue, p. 18,
      Robert did his exercises, standing in the yard where she could see him. Indian clubs—a chinning bar and shadow boxing.
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