波比跳

bōbǐtiào

noun

Meanings

1 burpee (exercise)

Characters

wave (phonetic)

compare (phonetic)

Examples

做二十个波比跳,我已经累瘫了。

Zuò èrshí gè bōbǐtiào, wǒ yǐjīng lèi tān le.

Twenty burpees and I'm already wrecked.

波比跳是HIIT训练的经典动作。

Bōbǐtiào shì HIIT xùnliàn de jīngdiǎn dòngzuò.

Burpees are a classic HIIT move.

Tips

memory

波比 (bōbǐ) is a phonetic transliteration of 'burpee' (the exercise's namesake, Royal H. Burpee), then 跳 (tiào, jump) was bolted on to describe what it is — so it's half loanword, half native description. Quantifier: usually 个 (gè) for reps.

Stroke Order

波 bō

比 bǐ

跳 tiào