Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Weight Lifting

A sport in which weights are lifted competitively or as an exercise.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

A sport in which weights are lifted competitively or as an exercise.

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Synonyms

3 entry terms
  • Lifting, Weight
  • Liftings, Weight
  • Weight Liftings

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Aspects Covered

12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, injuries, legislation & jurisprudence, physiology, psychology, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

/inj: coord IM with specific inj (IM); /physiol permitted; Manual 30.15+; includes body building if restricted to weight lifting, otherwise index under EXERCISE

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History Note

90(76); was see under SPORTS 1976-89

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Previous Indexing

  • Sports (1966-1975)

MeSH Hierarchy

Tree Number

  1. I03.450.642w.845w.950w

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NLM Classification

QT 260.5.W4

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Weight Lifting. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D014891. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D014891
  2. Weight Lifting. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_weightlifting
  3. Weight Lifting. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83462