In Japan, due partly to the fitness boom that began from around 2000, 'dumbbell training' also appeared as a way to exercise at home.
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Dumbbell
//ˈdʌm.bɛl//
Synonyms for "dumbbell" (129 found)
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Related words (64)
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9 entriesTranslations
99 translations across 46 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- dorak noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἁλτῆρες noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Arabic
1 entries- دُمْبِل noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- hantel noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Basque
1 entries- jasotzeko pisu noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Belarusian
1 entries- гантэ́ль noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Bulgarian
2 entries- ги́ра noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
- тъпа́к noun (a stupid person)
Catalan
3 entries- estúpid noun (a stupid person)
- estúpida noun (a stupid person)
- manuella noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 啞鈴 /哑铃 noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
- 蠢人 noun (a stupid person)
Czech
1 entries- činka noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Danish
1 entries- håndvægt noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Dutch
1 entries- halter noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Esperanto
1 entries- haltero noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Estonian
3 entries- hantel noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
- puupea noun (a stupid person)
- tola noun (a stupid person)
Finnish
3 entries- käsipaino noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
- tollo noun (a stupid person)
- typerys noun (a stupid person)
French
4 entries- balourd noun (a stupid person)
- haltère noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
- idiot noun (a stupid person)
- idiote noun (a stupid person)
German
2 entries- Hantel noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
- Kurzhantel noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Greek
2 entries- αλτήρας noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
- βλακέντιος noun (a stupid person)
Hebrew
1 entries- טֶמְבֶּל noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Hungarian
4 entries- barom noun (a stupid person)
- idióta noun (a stupid person)
- kézi súlyzó noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
- ostoba/hülye alak noun (a stupid person)
Icelandic
1 entries- handlóð noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- دستوزنه noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
- دَمْبِل noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Irish
1 entries- tromán lúith noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Italian
4 entries- cretino noun (a stupid person)
- deficiente noun (a stupid person)
- idiota noun (a stupid person)
- imbecille noun (a stupid person)
Japanese
3 entries- ダンベル noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
- 唖鈴 noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
- 鉄アレイ noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Korean
2 entries- 덤벨 noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
- 아령 noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Latin
3 entries- stulta noun (a stupid person)
- stultum noun (a stupid person)
- stultus noun (a stupid person)
Latvian
1 entries- hantele noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Lithuanian
1 entries- svarmenys noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Macedonian
1 entries- тег noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- manual noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- manual noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Polish
4 entries- ciężarek noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
- głupek noun (a stupid person)
- hantel noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
- tuman noun (a stupid person)
Portuguese
4 entries- estúpida noun (a stupid person)
- estúpido noun (a stupid person)
- halter noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
- haltere noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Romanian
1 entries- ganteră noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Russian
4 entries- болва́н noun (a stupid person)
- ганте́ль noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
- ганте́ля noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
- тупи́ца noun (a stupid person)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- bȕčica noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
- бу̏чица noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Slovak
1 entries- činka noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Spanish
4 entries- estúpida noun (a stupid person)
- estúpido noun (a stupid person)
- imbécil noun (a stupid person)
- mancuerna noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Swedish
3 entries- dumbom noun (a stupid person)
- dumsnut noun (a stupid person)
- hantel noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Tagalog
1 entries- pesas noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Turkish
3 entries- dambıl noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
- halter noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
- hanter noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ганте́ль noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Uyghur
1 entries- گانتېل noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Vietnamese
1 entries- quả tạ noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Welsh
1 entries- dymbel noun (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
A dumbbell should not be dropped on the floor.
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Tom struggled to lift the heavy dumbbell.
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How much does that dumbbell weigh?
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