Usually means: Prepare body and mind for activity.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word warm up:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. warm up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. warm-up, warm up: Merriam-Webster
  3. warm-up, warm up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. warm-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. warm-up, warm-up, warm up: Collins English Dictionary
  6. warm-up, warm up: Vocabulary.com
  7. Warm-Up, Warm-up, warm-up: Wordnik
  8. warm-up, warm (sb) up, warm (sb/sth) up, warm up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. warm-up, warm up: Wiktionary
  10. warm-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. warm-up: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. warm-up, warm up: Dictionary.com
  13. The Warm Up, Warm Up, Warm up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. warm-up, warm up: Rhymezone
  15. warm-up, warm up: FreeDictionary.org
  16. warm-up, warm up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. warm-up, warm up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. warm-up: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. warm up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. warm-up, warm up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. warm up: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. warm-up, warm up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. warm up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. warm up, warm up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. warm up: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (warm up)

verb:  (intransitive) To become warmer.
verb:  (transitive) To heat or reheat (e.g. food).
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To reach, or cause to reach, a normal operating temperature (of a car for example).
verb:  (figuratively) To physically or mentally prepare oneself, something or someone for an activity.
verb:  (intransitive) To do gentle exercise, stretching etc., in order to prepare the body for more vigorous exercise.
verb:  (intransitive) To prepare for an activity by carrying out a practice or preparation routine.
verb:  (transitive) To make (an audience) enthusiastic or animated before a show.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) Synonym of warm (to favor increasingly). [with to]

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