exercise
the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,319 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 7,480 times across 139,755 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit also: exercising, physical exercise, physical exertion, workout the doctor recommended regular exercisehe did some exercising
- the act of using also: use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment he warned against the use of narcotic drugsskilled in the utilization of computers
- systematic training by multiple repetitions also: practice, drill, practice session, recitation practice makes perfect
- a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding also: example you must work the examples at the end of each chapter in the textbook
- (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches academic exercises
- an action, often used negatively and without consequences an exercise in futilityan exercise in cheap talk
verb
- put to use also: exert exert one's power or influence
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions also: practice, practise, do practice law
exercise in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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She did not exercise this power consciously; she had merely to exist and it exercised itself.
The Pretty Lady · Arnold Bennett · Chapter 1
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The winter nights, following days spent largely indoors with little company and less exercise, were quite different.
The Soul of a Child · Edwin Björkman · Chapter 1
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Calm, silence, the constant exercise of all the faculties of the intellect, have charms which the vulgar can never suspect.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Each class would have preached the importance of those virtues, for whose exercise there was no necessity in their own lives.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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When Goethe had conceived Faust and Margarete, Mephistopheles and Wagner, they moved and had their being without any exercise of his will.
The Satyricon — Volume 01: Introduction · 20-66 Petronius Arbiter · Chapter 1