Definition of Indian club in US English:
Indian club
nounˈɪndiən kləbˈindēən kləb
Each of a pair of bottle-shaped clubs swung to exercise the arms in gymnastics or to perform juggling tricks.
Example sentencesExamples
- During his hospitalisation, he was given sparkling water from the nearby spring at Vergeze, and exercised his arms using Indian clubs as weights.
- There are also the traditional mil zourkhaneh, heavy Indian clubs with which musclemen do exercises that would wrench most people's arms from their sockets.
- A session with a pair of Indian clubs would have done it nicely.
- Disciplined athletes, the girls easily mastered the use of Indian clubs and dumbbells.
- Old manners of getting in shape seem to us today as antiquated and inefficient as using Indian clubs and medicine balls.