weight lifters

Gym strength competitors

Weight lifters are people who lift weights for exercise or competition.

The term covers both casual gym-goers building strength and competitive athletes in sports like powerlifting and Olympic weightlifting.

Weight lifters packed the gym after New Year's.

Also spelled as one word: weightlifters.

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athletic discipline/training type

weight liftersendurance athletes

People competing in prolonged sports

distance runners · triathletes · cross-country skiers · cyclists · joggers

body type and physical build

weight liftersectomorphs

Lean-bodied physique category

jockeys · distance runners · gymnasts · ballet dancers · coxswains

physical activity level

weight lifterscouch potatoes

Habitual inactive TV viewers

desk jockeys · weaklings · homebodies

Family

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G