black iron

English

Etymology

From the typical paint color and material traditionally used for free weights (cast iron with black paint).

Noun

black iron (uncountable)

  2. (gym jargon) Free weights as opposed to exercise machines.
    Hypernyms: weights < sporting goods < equipment
    • 2017, Ken Heathcote, We're Going To Live Forever: The Secrets To Eternal Youth, page 44:
      The problem we had was not the concept or the product, but what to do with the space. To put a beauty salon alongside a black iron gym was ludicrous.
    • 2021, Jane Brooke, Vegas Savages:
      There[sic] always lifting big, black iron and such, grunting, screaming out shit and slamming down the barbells […]

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