barbell

English

A barbell

Etymology

Blend of bar +‎ dumbbell. The piercing is named after the exercise equipment, because of the visual resemblance.

Pronunciation

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Noun

barbell (plural barbells)

1. A wide steel bar with premeasured weights affixed to either end, with the central span open for the hands of the weightlifter.

   Synonym: weight bar

2. A piece of jewellery composed of a straight bar with a bead on each end, used as a piercing.

Derived terms

• barbell bar pad
• barbell cushion
• barbell pad
• barbell rack
• nanobarbell

 

Translations

wide steel bar with premeasured weights

• Arabic: بَرْبِل m (barbil)
• Armenian: ծանրաձող (hy) (canrajoġ)
• Azerbaijani: ştanq, ştanqa
• Belarusian: шта́нга f (štánha)
• Bulgarian: ща́нга (bg) f (štánga)
• Catalan: barra (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 槓鈴 / 杠铃 (zh) (gànglíng)

• Czech: činka (cs) f
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: halterego sg
• Finnish: levytanko (fi)
• French: haltère (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Langhantel f, Hantel (de) f
• Hungarian: súlyzó (hosszú rúddal) (hu), súlyemelő rúd
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: barbel (id)
• Italian: bilanciere (it) m
• Japanese: バーベル (ja) (bāberu)
• Kazakh: зілтемір (zıltemır)
• Korean: 역기 (ko) (yeokgi), 바벨 (ko) (babel)
• Lithuanian: štanga f
• Norwegian Bokmål: vektstang m or f
• Persian: هالتر (fa) (hâlter)
• Polish: sztanga (pl) f
• Portuguese: barra (pt) f
• Romanian: halteră (ro) f
• Russian: шта́нга (ru) f (štánga)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шта́нга f

  Roman: štánga (sh) f

• Slovak: činka (sk) f
• Spanish: barra con pesas f, barra (es) f, haltera f
• Swedish: skivstång (sv) c
• Tagalog: barbel, pesas
• Ukrainian: шта́нга f (štánha)

See also

• dumbbell
• kettlebell