leg

noun

ˈleg How to pronounce leg (audio)
Definition of legnext
1
as in thigh
a lower limb of an animal he broke his leg when he accidentally stepped in that gopher hole

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2
as in stage
a portion of a trip on the first leg of the cruise they went south to the Caribbean

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Recent Examples of leg During the struggle, a firearm was discharged and struck the person who intervened in the leg, police said. — Ethan Varian, Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2026 The Broadway star endured mini-strokes, blood clots, septic infections and a tracheostomy before doctors amputated his right leg. — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 16 Aug. 2026 Saturday was the first game without a goal for LAFC since losing to another Mexican side, Toluca, 4-0 on May 6 in the second leg of the CONCACAF Champions Cup semifinal. — Josh Gross, Daily News, 16 Aug. 2026 Inter Miami, under previous coach Javier Mascherano, tied 0-0 in the first leg in Nashville and 1-1 in Miami’s home leg. — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 16 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for leg
Recent Examples of Synonyms for leg
  1. thigh
  2. stage
  3. calf
  4. lap
  5. pin
Noun
  • Oh, and sweat, bacne, thigh chafing, and, in some cases, a smattering of pesky little bumps in the area above your upper thigh and below your buttcheeks.
    — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Budd gets back into the race and Decker goes down with an injured thigh.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of thigh
Noun
  • This extended to her closest competitors in the Tour, after Niewiadoma-Phinney accused Vollering’s teammate Célia Gery of boxing her in during the crucial penultimate stage.
    — Jessica Hopkins, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2026
  • That could remove a potentially costly stage from the production of semiconductor-quality material.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of stage
Noun
  • The number of beef cows is at historic lows for the midyear mark, and the calf crop for 2026 is projected to be down another 2% from last year’s multidecade lows, per the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s cattle report released last month.
    — Claire Malon, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
  • While Antetokounmpo was limited to 36 games last season due in large part to multiple calf strains, Antetokounmpo is still at the top of his game when healthy.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of calf
Noun
  • The musician’s Growth EP, originally released in the summer of 2021, just turned five, and in a sort of celebration of the short studio effort — and perhaps as something of a victory lap for the past year or two — her camp reissued the EP.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Which means that for much of a lap, a Formula E GEN4 car will generate as much power as a 2027-spec Formula 1 car; the F1 car is also stuck with just 602 hp from its V6 engine when the battery has no charge.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of lap
Noun
  • Reilly’s shot took one hop and struck the pin, rolling off the green, into the fairway and into the rough.
    — Mercury News staff, Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Reilly's shot took one hop and struck the pin, rolling off the green, into the fairway and into the rough.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of pin

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“Leg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leg. Accessed 17 Aug. 2026.

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