English > physical exercise: 1 sense > noun 1, actMeaning | The activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit. |
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Synonyms | exercise, exercising, physical exertion, workout |
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Narrower | Kegel exercises, pubococcygeus exercises | Exercises for women designed to improve the ability to hold urine |
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arm exercise | Exercise designed to strengthen the arm muscles |
back exercise | Exercise designed to strengthen the back muscles |
bodybuilding, anaerobic exercise, muscle building, musclebuilding | Exercise that builds / builds muscles through tension |
calisthenics, callisthenics | light / light exercises designed to promote general fitness |
cardiopulmonary exercise | Exercise intended to strengthen the circulatory system |
gymnastic exercise | (gymnastics) an exercise designed to develop and display strength and agility and balance (usually performed with or on some gymnastic apparatus) |
isometrics, isometric exercise | Muscle-building exercises (or a system of musclebuilding exercises) involving muscular contractions against resistance without movement (the muscles contracts but the length of the muscle does not change) |
isotonic exercise | Exercise in which opposing muscles contract and there is controlled movement (tension is constant while the lengths of the muscles change) |
kick up | Raising the feet backward with the hands on the ground |
leg exercise | Exercise designed to strengthen the leg muscles |
neck exercise | Exercise designed to strengthen the neck muscles |
set, exercise set | Several exercises intended to be done in series |
stomach exercise, tummy crunch | An exercise designed to strengthen the abdominal muscles |
stretch, stretching | Exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent |
yoga | A system of exercises practiced as part of the Hindu discipline to promote control of the body and mind |
Broader | effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat | Use of physical or mental energy |
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Spanish | ejercicio, entrenamiento |
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Catalan | entrenament, exercici físic, exercici |
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