exercise

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English

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Alternative forms

Etymology

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(deprecated template usage) From Middle English exercise, from Old French exercise, from Latin exercitium.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ex‧er‧cise
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Noun

exercise (countable and uncountable, plural exercises)

  1. (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.
    • (Can we date this quote by Edmund Spenser and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      desire of knightly exercise
    • (Can we date this quote by John Locke and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      an exercise of the eyes and memory
  2. (countable, uncountable) 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.
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      This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment.
    • 2018, Timothy R. Jennings, The Aging Brain, →ISBN, page 107:
      Regular mental exercise keeps the circuits of the brain active and healthy and reduces the risk of dementia.
  3. 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.
    • (Can we date this quote by Thomas Jefferson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      exercise of the important function confided by the constitution to the legislature
    • (Can we date this quote by Alfred Tennyson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      O we will walk this world, / Yoked in all exercise of noble end.
  4. The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
    I assisted the ailing vicar in the exercise of his parish duties.
    • (Can we date this quote by Joseph Addison and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Lewis refused even those of the church of England […] the public exercise of their religion.
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  5. (obsolete) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
    • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Patience is more oft the exercise / Of saints, the trial of their fortitude.

Derived terms

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Translations

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Verb

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  1. 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
  2. (intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.
    I exercise at the gym every day.
  3. (transitive) To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
    The tenant exercised its option to renew the tenancy.
    She is going to exercise her right to vote.
    • Bible, Ezekiel xxii. 29
      The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery.
  4. (now often in passive) 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
    • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Where pain of unextinguishable fire / Must exercise us without hope of end.
  5. (obsolete) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.
    • Bible, Acts xxiv. 16
      Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence.
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      Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.

Translations

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See also

Further reading

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