Synonyms for warm up
warm up

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1. warm-up, tune-up, prolusionverb

   exercising in preparation for strenuous activity

   Synonyms:
   warm-up, tune-up, prolusion, foreword, preface

2. warm upverb

   run until the normal working temperature is reached

   "We warmed up the car for a few minutes"

   Synonyms:
   loosen up, warm, limber up

3. warm upverb

   become more friendly or open

   "She warmed up after we had lunch together"

   Synonyms:
   loosen up, warm, limber up

4. warm, warm upverb

   get warm or warmer

   "The soup warmed slowly on the stove"

   Synonyms:
   loosen up, warm, limber up

5. warm upverb

   cause to do preliminary exercises so as to stretch the muscles

   "The coach warmed up the players before the game"

   Synonyms:
   loosen up, warm, limber up

6. limber up, warm up, loosen upverb

   make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity

   Synonyms:
   decompress, unlax, warm, unwind, limber up, loosen up, unstuff, unbend, limber, unstrain, make relaxed, relax, slow down

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1. • Change
   • Exercise
   • Run
   • Work

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1. Joseph Cirincione:

   People talk very cavalierly about these strikes. It's really appalling to me that this kind of discussion goes on, this is not a pinprick attack. This would be weeks of hundreds of U.S. sorties. This would be the beginning of a major war in the Middle East that would make the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq look like warm-up acts, and it would have regional consequences.

2. Zakaria Ngobongue:

   This exercise to a large extent can be considered a warm-up to enable our special forces to learn techniques in the fight against terrorism.

3. Carl James:

   I have been hearing July, as long as these fires don't start back up, it's supposed to warm up. For days it's been cruddy, spitting rain. It's been cold.

4. Seb Coe:

   I think the Games will go ahead. I was in Tokyo a week ago and spent 48 very intensive hours talking to the organising committee and the government, there is a cast-iron determination to stage the Games, though there is a recognition that we are still in uncertain territory. Yes, the vaccine will help, but I guess for athletes in the village and warm up track etc, there are going to be some adaptations.

5. Curtis Penix:

   Rather than end my trip there, I bit the bullet and I decided to stop in at a motel and dry off and warm up, that was kind of a low point. I had tried to do this . . . just like Grandpa Joshua did. Sleeping under the stars, fording the rivers, carrying all my own food.