0 a return of strength or energy that makes it possible to continue in an activity that needs a lot of effort:
1 a return of strength or energy that makes it possible to continue in an activity or start again:
Mikoto hearing this gets a second wind and charges up the mountain to catch up to the leaders.
Spirit gets a second wind and throws him off.
His work was especially popular in the 1980s, though his career seemed to get a second wind in the late 1990s.
A "second wind (sleep)" is also a sleep phenomenon.
It might well be that, figuratively speaking, the jury had gotten its second wind.
One can avoid getting a second wind by practicing proper sleep hygiene.
Documented experiences of the second wind go back at least 100 years, when it was taken to be a commonly held fact of exercise.
The pace slows again in the seventh as both fighters look to catch their second wind.
