verb To set a new personal best, especially in sport or fitness.
- I'm only 20. Dwain Chambers is 36 now, Kim Collins is 38 and still PBing. These guys have long careers so hopefully I can push on and hope for something similar.
— Sean Ingle, Commonwealth Games 2014: Adam Gemili keeps mind on track after silver (2014)
- I PBed my go-to twisting descent not once but twice, all the while feeling totally in control, each run thrillingly rapid but never reckless.
— James Spender, Argonaut Road Bike review (2019)
- Speaking after yesterday's race, Ellie, from Walsall, said: 'I would have loved to get the gold but you can't have everything. ¶ 'I've been PBing every time I swim so I can't ask for any more.'
— Metrowebukmetro, Ellie Simmonds' father: My girl has made the world stop and think (2012)
- She PB'd in the 10k, shaving forty seconds off her old time.
- He's been trying to PB on his bench press all month.
