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Hip flexors

Meaning in sports & fitness, with examples

nounCommon term

In sports & fitness, hip flexors means: A group of muscles that bring the thigh toward the trunk or help bend the body at the hip.

In Turkish: kalça fleksörleri, kalçayı büken kaslar

How it is used

Coaches use the plural hip flexors because several muscles share this action.

Example sentences

  1. The lesson linked the hip flexors to lifting the knee.

    Raising the thigh demonstrates the group's shared action.

  2. She asked which hip flexors were shown in the anatomy model.

    The question concerns individual muscles within a group.

Common collocations

  • hip flexor stretch
  • tight hip flexors
  • muscleA soft body tissue that can contract and relax to move parts of the body; skeletal muscles are attached to bones by tendons.
  • mobilityThe ability to move a joint actively and with control through its full range of motion; it depends on strength and joint health as well as flexibility.

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