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Exercise   /ˈɛksərsˌaɪz/   Listen
Exercise

noun
1.
The activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit.  Synonyms: exercising, physical exercise, physical exertion, workout.  "He did some exercising" , "The physical exertion required by his work kept him fit"
2.
The act of using.  Synonyms: employment, usage, use, utilisation, utilization.  "Skilled in the utilization of computers"
3.
Systematic training by multiple repetitions.  Synonyms: drill, practice, practice session, recitation.
4.
A task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding.  Synonym: example.
5.
(usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches.
verb
(past & past part. exercised; pres. part. exercising)
1.
Put to use.  Synonym: exert.
2.
Carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions.  Synonyms: do, practice, practise.
3.
Give a workout to.  Synonyms: work, work out.  "My personal trainer works me hard" , "Work one's muscles" , "This puzzle will exercise your mind"
4.
Do physical exercise.  Synonym: work out.
5.
Learn by repetition.  Synonyms: drill, practice, practise.  "Pianists practice scales"



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"Exercise" Quotes from Famous Books



... those who may be entrusted to our care, the benefits of the highest physical, intellectual and moral education in the present state of human knowledge, the resources at our command will permit; to institute an attractive, efficient and productive system of industry; to prevent the exercise of worldly anxiety by the competent supply of our necessary wants; to diminish the desire of excessive accumulation by making the acquisition of individual property subservient to upright and disinterested uses; to guarantee to each other the means of physical support and of spiritual progress, ...
— Brook Farm • John Thomas Codman
... had been a student of men rather than of machinery, he would have found few nobler companies on whom to exercise his discernment, than he might have seen in the little terrace bowling-green behind the Pelican Inn, on the afternoon of the nineteenth of July. Chatting in groups, or lounging over the low wall which commanded a view of the Sound and the shipping far below, were gathered almost ...
— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley
... I see your intentions are good. We both play with words, perhaps because the exercise tickles our fancy, but to return to the true spirit and essence of things, I warn you that it would be wise to surrender. My force is very much greater than Captain Colden's, and has him hemmed in. If my Indian allies suffer too much in the attack it ...
— The Shadow of the North - A Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign • Joseph A. Altsheler
... feeling of relief to Katy, whom nothing could disfigure, and who was now watching the door eagerly for the entrance of her mother. That lady had spent a good deal of time at her toilet, and she came in at last, flurried, fidgety, and very red, both from exercise and the bright-hued ribbons streaming from her cap and sadly at variance with the color of her dress. Wilford noticed the discrepancy at once, and noticed too how little style there was about the nervous woman greeting him so deferentially and evidently regarding him as something ...
— Family Pride - Or, Purified by Suffering • Mary J. Holmes
... he have an air as if he listened to two voices and was distressed by the effort to follow their diverse musics? But she could not quarrel with him for long, for he was wearing the drenched and glittering look which was given him by triumph or hard physical exercise and which always overcame her heart like the advance of an army. His flesh and hair seemed to reflect the light as if they were wet, but neither with sweat nor with water. Rather was it as if he were newly risen from a brave dive into some pool of vitality whose whereabouts were the secret that ...
— The Judge • Rebecca West


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