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Rugby union player Clément Poitreneaud passively stretching his hamstring.

From Middle English strecching, strecchinge, equivalent to stretch +‎ -ing.

stretching (countable and uncountable, plural stretchings)

  1. The act by which something is stretched.

    • 1859, Victor Regnault, Elements of Chemistry:

      [Skins] must be submitted to several washings, treadings, and stretchings, before they acquire the necessary pliancy.

  2. A form of physical exercise in which a specific skeletal muscle (or muscle group) is deliberately elongated to its fullest length in order to improve the muscle's felt elasticity and reaffirm comfortable muscle tone.

a form of physical exercise

From Middle English strecchinge, strecchynge, from Old English streċċende, from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjandī, present participle of *strakkjan (“to stretch”), equivalent to stretch +‎ -ing.

stretching (comparative more stretching, superlative most stretching)

  1. Requiring a high level of effort or performance.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:stretching.

stretching

  1. present participle and gerund of stretch

Unadapted borrowing from English stretching.

stretching m (uncountable)

  1. stretching
  • stretching in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
stretching

Unadapted borrowing from English stretching.

stretching m inan (related adjective stretchingowy)

  1. (exercise) stretching (form of physical exercise in which a specific skeletal muscle (or muscle group) is deliberately elongated to its fullest length in order to improve the muscle's felt elasticity and reaffirm comfortable muscle tone)
  • stretching in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • stretching at Obserwatorium językowe Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

Borrowed from English stretching.

stretching c

  1. stretching (form of physical exercise)