Active bodily exercise or movement; brisk and vigorous action of the body or limbs, as in fighting, fencing, dancing, leaping, etc. Also figurative…

Active movement; bodily exercise. Obsolete.

Physical exercise. Obsolete.

A task prescribed or performed for the sake of attaining proficiency, for training either body or mind… In plural. Military drill, athletics, field…

Physical exercise, gymnastics, athletics; (also) a gymnastic exercise. Now only in feats of activity.

Physical, esp. strenuous, exercise or exertion. Also in plural. Obsolete.

singular. = A. 2.

plural gymnastics n. The practice of athletic exercises for the development of the body, now esp. of such exercises as are performed in a building…

A sudden sportive or fantastic motion; a prank, trick, caper.

University slang. A steeplechase; also, a walk taken for the sake of exercise, a ‘constitutional’.

physical exercises.

= exercise, n. 7.

energetic physical exercises undertaken to maintain or improve strength or fitness; physical training.

(originally) (the name of) a set of physical exercises designed to be performed each day on rising; (later more generally) any exercise or group of…

Originally: a practice run for a racehorse. Now more generally: a session of physical exercise or training; (also) a practice session for a…

Sexual activity regarded as exercise.