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Elastics vs Stretching - What's the difference?

elastics | stretching |

As nouns the difference between elastics and stretching

is that elastics is while stretching is the act by which something is stretched.

As a verb stretching is

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elastics

English

Noun

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  • A children's skipping game.
  • * 2010 , Jacinta Tynan, Some Girls Do...: My Life as a Teenager
    • We could play elastics , or skipping, without the need of anyone else to stand in the loops or hold the rope.

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    stretching

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia stretching) (en noun)
  • The act by which something is stretched.
  • * 1859 , Victor Regnault, Elements of Chemistry
    • [Skins] must be submitted to several washings, treadings, and stretchings , before they acquire the necessary pliancy.
  • A form of physical exercise in which a specific skeletal muscle (or muscle group) is deliberately elongated to its fullest length in order to improve the muscle's felt elasticity and reaffirm comfortable muscle tone.

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