A pull-up is a fitness exercise: you hang from a bar above your head and use your arms — and your back — to pull your body up until your chin is near the bar, then you lower yourself again. Trainers count them: “ten pull-ups.” A pull-up bar is the bar you use.

A pull-up is a fitness exercise pull-up 是一種健身動作： you hang from a bar above your head你吊在頭頂的橫桿上， and use your arms — and your back —用手臂——還有背—— to pull your body up把身體拉上去， until your chin is near the bar直到下巴接近桿子， then you lower yourself again再把自己放下來。 Trainers count them教練會數次數： "ten pull-ups."十下引體向上。 A pull-up bar is pull-up bar 就是 the bar you use你用的那根桿子。

Though actually, people mix this up with a chin-up. Strictly, a chin-up has your palms facing you; a pull-up has the palms facing away. Lots of speakers treat the two as the same, so do not be surprised.

Though actually不過其實， people mix this up with大家常把它和 a chin-up 搞混。 Strictly嚴格說， a chin-up has your palms facing you chin-up 是掌心朝向自己； a pull-up has the palms facing away pull-up 是掌心朝外。 Lots of speakers很多人 treat the two as the same把兩個當成同一回事， so do not be surprised所以聽到別驚訝。

As a noun for the exercise, it is usually written with a hyphen. The phrasal verb pull up is a different meaning in everyday talk: a car pulling up is a car coming to a stop. Same pieces, different job.

As a noun for the exercise當它是這個動作的名詞時， it is usually written with a hyphen通常寫成帶連字號。 The phrasal verb pull up片語動詞 pull up， in everyday talk在日常口語裡， is a different meaning是另一個意思： a car pulling up一輛 pull up 的車， is a car coming to a stop是一輛正在停下來的車。 Same pieces同樣的零件， different job不同的工作。