Noun

1. A sport in which competitors lift heavy weights in two events: the snatch and the clean and jerk.
   • 1974, Arnold Schwarzenegger, in Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron, page 21.

     Then I started weight lifting through the other sports and I enjoyed it the mostbut I found out I was too tall. So I quit that and went into bodybuilding.

2. A form of exercise in which weights are lifted.