Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun push_up

1 sense of pushup

Sense 1
pushup, press-up -- (an arm exercise performed lying face to the floor and pushing the body up and down with the arms)
       => arm exercise -- (exercise designed to strengthen the arm muscles)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb push_up

2 senses of push up

Sense 1
push up -- (push upward)
       => push, force -- (move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner")

Sense 2
thrust, push up -- (push upward; "The front of the trains that had collided head-on thrust up into the air")
       => stick out, protrude, jut out, jut, project -- (extend out or project in space; "His sharp nose jutted out"; "A single rock sticks out from the cliff")