a type of exercise in which the knees are bent in order to strengthen the leg muscles and to make the knees more supple
Do hip circles and gentle knee bends before the lower body workout.
knee bend in American English
noun
a physical exercise in which a person starts from an erect position, moves to a squatting position, and returns to the original position without using the hands to support the body
Word origin
[1940–45]This word is first recorded in the period 1940–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: black box, blockbuster, debrief, redline, sealant
Examples of 'knee-bend' in a sentence
knee-bend
We evaluated the femoral rollback, internal-external rotation, and quadriceps muscle force under a deep-knee-bend condition.
Yong-Gon Koh, Ji-Hoon Nam, Kyoung-Tak Kang 2018, 'Effect of geometric variations on tibiofemoral surface and post-cam design of normalknee kinematics restoration', Journal of Experimental Orthopaedicshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40634-018-0167-z. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)