warms up
Heats before exercise
Warms up means to prepare gradually for activity or reach operating temperature.
Athletes warm up before competition with stretching and light exercise.
Engines warm up before performing optimally.
A crowd warms up as excitement builds.
To warm up to someone is to become friendlier over time: She was distant at first but eventually warmed up to me.
A warm-up is the preparatory period itself.
- loosensDecreases tightness or tension
- limbersMakes supple
- flexesBends or tightens
- preheatsHeats in advance
- calisthenicsEquipment-free resistance exercises
exercises · jogs · breaks a sweat · acclimates · energizes · activates · stretch · ready position · thaw · intensifying · pregame · on deck · opening act · invigorate · primes · familiarizes · stokes · kindles
warms upcools down
Reduces in temperature
cools · chills · cools off · refrigerates · freezes
warms upcools down
Reduces in temperature
winds down · stretches out · recovers · rests · dives in
warms upcools off
Becomes less hot
withdraws · freezes out · shuts down · pulls away · clams up