Dumbbell

In Japan, due partly to the fitness boom that began from around 2000, 'dumbbell training' also appeared as a way to exercise at home.

A dumbbell should not be dropped on the floor.

Tom struggled to lift the heavy dumbbell.

How much does that dumbbell weigh?

"I can do twelve dumbbell biceps curls with six kilos in five sets." "Six kilos? Lame." "Fuck off, douche!" "What did you call me?!" "OK, here goes my 5 kilometer run."

"I can do twelve dumbbell biceps curls with six kilos in five sets." "Six kilos? If you can't lift 20 kilos one arm you are not a man." "Don't care what you think. I do everything in my own tempo."

He was exercising with the dumbbells in gym class today.

He also had a room strewn with the toys of the trade and what-have-you: ropes and ironmongery, buoyancy aid and bagpipes, fetid socks and half-eaten haggises, dumbbells and ski-instructor sweaters.

On the map Gansu is shaped like a dumbbell lying obliquely from east to west. Its best known city is Lanjhou, the capital, and also the gateway to the Silk Road. But we did not go there; we were heading for a relatively unknown city a few hundred miles away from Lanjhou, called Tianshuei.

That's fool's gold, you dumbbell. Iron pyrite. Nobody would give you a dime for a ton of it.