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Exercise

Exercise is any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health and wellness.It is performed for various reasons, to aid growth and improve strength, prevent aging, develop muscles and the cardiovascular system, hone athletic skills, weight loss or maintenance, improve health, or simply for enjoyment. Many individuals choose to exercise outdoors where they can congregate in groups, socialize, and enhance well-being.In terms of health benefits, the amount of recommended exercise depends upon the goal, the type of exercise, and the age of the person.

Exercise

Activity requiring physical effort, carried out to sustain or improve health and fitness
Loosening-up exercises
Exercise improves your heart and lung power

Exercise

An activity carried out for a specific purpose
An exercise in public relations

Exercise

The use or application of a faculty, right, or process
The exercise of authority

Exercise

Use or apply (a faculty, right, or process)
Control is exercised by the Board
Anyone receiving a suspect package should exercise extreme caution
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Exercise

Engage in physical activity to sustain or improve health and fitness
She still exercised every day

Exercise

Occupy the thoughts of; worry or perplex
Macdougall was greatly exercised about the exchange rate

Exercise

Activity that requires physical or mental exertion, especially when performed to develop or maintain fitness
Walks every day for exercise.

Exercise

A specific activity performed to develop or maintain fitness or a skill
Sit-ups and other exercises.
A piano exercise.

Exercise

The active use or application of something
The exercise of good judgment.
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Exercise

The discharge of a duty, function, or office.

Exercise

An activity having a specified aspect
An undertaking that was an exercise in futility.

Exercise

A military maneuver or training activity.

Exercise

Exercises A ceremony that includes speeches, presentations, and other activities
Graduation exercises.

Exercise

To subject to practice or exertion in order to train, strengthen, or develop
Exercise the back muscles.
Exercise the memory.

Exercise

To put through exercises
Exercise a platoon.

Exercise

To make active use of; employ, apply, or exert
Exercise restraint.
Exercise control.

Exercise

To discharge (duties, for example).

Exercise

To carry out the functions of
Exercise the role of disciplinarian.

Exercise

To execute the terms of (a stock option, for example).

Exercise

To alarm, worry, or anger; upset
An injustice that exercised the whole community.

Exercise

To engage in exercise.

Exercise

(countable) Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
The teacher told us that the next exercise is to write an essay.

Exercise

Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.
Swimming is good exercise.
I like to do my exercises every morning before breakfast.
I do crosswords for mental exercise.

Exercise

A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
The law guarantees us the free exercise of our rights.

Exercise

The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
I assisted the ailing vicar in the exercise of his parish duties.

Exercise

(obsolete) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.

Exercise

To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
To exercise troops or horses;
To exercise one's brain with a puzzle

Exercise

(intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.
I exercise at the gym every day.

Exercise

(transitive) To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
The tenant exercised his option to renew the tenancy.
She is going to exercise her right to vote.

Exercise

To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.
Exercised with pain

Exercise

(obsolete) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.

Exercise

The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in general; practice.
Exercise of the important function confided by the constitution to the legislature.
O we will walk this world,Yoked in all exercise of noble end.

Exercise

Exertion for the sake of training or improvement whether physical, intellectual, or moral; practice to acquire skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness, grace, etc.
An exercise of the eyes and memory.

Exercise

Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to take exercise on horseback; to exercise on a treadmill or in a gym.
The wise for cure on exercise depend.

Exercise

The performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty.
Lewis refused even those of the church of England . . . the public exercise of their religion.
To draw him from his holy exercise.

Exercise

That which is done for the sake of exercising, practicing, training, or promoting skill, health, mental, improvement, moral discipline, etc.; that which is assigned or prescribed for such ends; hence, a disquisition; a lesson; a task; as, military or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition; arithmetic exercises.
The clumsy exercises of the European tourney.
He seems to have taken a degree, and performed public exercises in Cambridge, in 1565.

Exercise

That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
Patience is more oft the exerciseOf saints, the trial of their fortitude.

Exercise

To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to; to put in action habitually or constantly; to school or train; to exert repeatedly; to busy.
Herein do I Exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence.

Exercise

To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop; hence, also, to improve by practice; to discipline, and to use or to for the purpose of training; as, to exercise arms; to exercise one's self in music; to exercise troops.
About him exercised heroic gamesThe unarmed youth.

Exercise

To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious; to affect; to discipline; as, exercised with pain.
Where pain of unextinguishable fireMust exercise us without hope of end.

Exercise

To put in practice; to carry out in action; to perform the duties of; to use; to employ; to practice; as, to exercise authority; to exercise an office.
I am the Lord which exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth.
The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery.

Exercise

To exercise one's self, as under military training; to drill; to take exercise; to use action or exertion; to practice gymnastics; as, to exercise for health or amusement.
I wear my trusty sword,When I do exercise.

Exercise

The activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit;
The doctor recommended regular exercise
He did some exercising
The physical exertion required by his work kept him fit

Exercise

The act of using;
He warned against the use of narcotic drugs
Skilled in the utilization of computers

Exercise

Systematic training by multiple repetitions;
Practice makes perfect

Exercise

A task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding;
You must work the examples at the end of each chapter in the textbook

Exercise

(usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches;
Academic exercises

Exercise

Put to use;
Exert one's power or influence

Exercise

Carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions;
Practice law

Exercise

Give a work-out to;
Some parents exercise their infants
My personal trainer works me hard
Work one's muscles

Exercise

Do physical exercise;
She works out in the gym every day

Exercise

Learn by repetition;
We drilled French verbs every day
Pianists practice scales

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