Synonyms for stretching
stretch·ing

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1. stretchingnoun

   act of expanding by lengthening or widening

   Synonyms:
   stretch

2. stretch, stretchingnoun

   exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent

   Synonyms:
   stint, reach, stretchiness, stretch, stretchability, reaching

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1. • Exercise
   • Expansion

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1. stretchingnoun

   Synonyms:
   tension, distension, extension, porrection, pandiculation, intension

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1. List of paraphrases for "stretching":

   stretch, extending

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1. Sinan Ulgen:

   Secondly, there was the fear that the expansion of the PYD could ultimately establish a Kurdish territory stretching from Iraq to the Mediterranean. These two dynamics forced Turkey's hand.

2. Poonsuk Poonsukcharoen:

   With legitimacy stretching thin and achievements falling flat, the junta feels the pressure to silence critics to maintain its power.

3. Jackson Browne:

   I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.

4. Charlotte McKinney:

   I’m all about lengthening and toning, i don’t do heavy weights. I don’t really do anything too intense. It’s more cardio and stretching and yoga and keeping long, lean muscles as opposed to doing a bunch of reps with weights. I usually [work out] six days a week [but] it’s more of a mental thing. Mentally, I feel so much better after I work out. I would say an hour a day, sometimes two hours. It just depends, but I’ve learned to not be so hard on myself.

5. Caroline Wozniacki:

   I think you just always try to figure out what's working and what's not, then you listen to the body, you try a few different things, for me, it's just all the time making sure I get good massaging, good treatments, ice baths, stretching, do everything even more thoroughly than maybe in the past.