barbell

barbell

English

A barbell

Etymology

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

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

Derived terms

• barbell pad

Translations

wide steel bar with premeasured weights

Arabic: بَرْبِل‎ m (barbil) Armenian: ծանրաձող (hy) (canrajoł) 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 (bāberu) Kazakh: зілтемір (zıltemır) Korean: 역기 (ko) (yeokgi), 바벨 (ko) (babel) Lithuanian: štanga f Persian: هالتر‎ (fa) (hâlter) Polish: sztanga (pl) f Portuguese: barra (pt) f Russian: шта́нга (ru) f (štánga) Serbo-Croatian: 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