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allungamento

lengthening

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Body & Health Movement

Also means

extension

Usage Note

Allungamento refers to the act or result of making something longer — a road, a contract deadline, a muscle stretch (esercizi di allungamento, 'stretching exercises'). In sports and physiology it specifically denotes a stretching exercise. It derives from allungare ('to lengthen'), itself from lungo ('long'). The plural allungamenti is regular.

Examples

"Fai qualche esercizio di allungamento prima di correre."

Natural Translation

Do some stretching exercises before running.

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