A form of exercise in which weights are lifted. / (sports) A sport in which competitors lift heavy weights in two events: the snatch and the clean and jerk.

plural of weightlifter

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of weightlift

simple past tense and past participle of weightlift

(weightlifting) A person who competes for maximum weight lifted in a series of specific lifts.

(intransitive, rare, sports) To practise weightlifting.