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Doing chin-ups using a chinning bar

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chinning bar (plural chinning bars)

  1. A bar used for doing chin-ups or pull-ups (exercises in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar)
    • 1966, Cynthia Ozick, Trust[1], New York: The New American Library, Part 4, Chapter 20, p. 545:
      He had lost one of the oars. The other was pulled tight against him like a chinning bar.
    • 1977, Timothy Findley, The Wars[2], New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, published 1978, Prologue, p. 18:
      Robert did his exercises, standing in the yard where she could see him. Indian clubs—a chinning bar and shadow boxing.

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