Meaning & use
warm-up
A period of light exercise or practice done to prepare the body or mind before a main activity.
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The runners did a ten-minute warm-up before the race began.
The band played a few quiet chords as a warm-up before the concert started.
A note on using this word
Written as a hyphenated noun, a warm-up, but as two separate words in the verb phrase warm up before running.
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