exercisenoun
uk/ˈek.sə.saɪz/us/ˈek.sɚ.saɪz/exercise noun (HEALTHY ACTIVITY)
A2 [ C or U ] physical activity that you do to make your body strong and healthy:
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- Regular exercise reduces the risk of coronary heart disease.
- This exercise is designed to develop the shoulder and back muscles.
- Eat healthily and take plenty of exercise.
- I haven't done much exercise all week, so I think I'll go for a jog this morning.
- A good diet and plenty of exercise will help you to keep your body healthy.
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Exercising & training
- aerial yoga
- Anti-Gravity yoga
- barbell
- bench press
- benchpress
- bodybuilding
- calisthenics
- cardio
- cross-trainer
- cross-training
- crunch
- firm sth up
- limber
- multigym
- Pilates
- split
- t'ai chi
- train
- warm
- weight training
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exercise noun (PRACTICE)
C2 [ C ] an action or actions intended to improve something or make something happen:
A2 [ C ] a short piece of written work that you do to practise something you are learning:
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- These mental exercises are designed to encourage creative thinking.
- The cost of this exercise is proving a major hurdle.
- Today we're going to work on an exercise that aims to improve your interpersonal skills.
- One official dismissed the ceasefire as a mere propaganda exercise.
- Environmentalists attacked the company's ad as a public-relations exercise.
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Acting and acts
- (your) every move idiom
- -ation
- act/do sth on your own responsibility idiom
- action
- activity
- agency
- ant
- be up to sth idiom
- feel
- gambit
- get around to sth
- give yourself over/up to sth
- go about sth
- go about your business idiom
- go through with sth
- hand
- manoeuvring
- money
- talk the talk idiom
- up to
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exercise noun (USE)
[ U ] formal the use of something:
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Using and misusing
- adopt
- adoption
- advantage
- avail
- avail yourself of sth
- be/go heavy on sth idiom
- go into sth
- go through sth
- gobble sth up
- heavy
- make capital out of sth idiom
- max
- mine
- unused
- upcycle
- upcycling
- usable
- usage
- use
- wear
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exercise noun (CEREMONY)
a ceremony that includes speeches and usually traditional music or activities:
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Ceremonies
- cavalcade
- ceremonial
- ceremony
- commemorate
- commencement
- hara-kiri
- induction
- initiate
- investiture
- knight
- master of ceremonies
- MC
- nuptials
- pageant
- ritual
- salute
- solemnize
- speech day
- state occasion
- troop
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exerciseverb
uk/ˈek.sə.saɪz/us/ˈek.sɚ.saɪz/exercise verb (DO HEALTHY ACTIVITY)
B1 [ I or T ] to do physical activities to make your body strong and healthy:
[ T ] If you exercise an animal, you make it walk or run so that it stays strong and healthy:
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- Eat healthily and exercise regularly.
- Aerobics is one of the most stimulating ways of exercising.
- He would never exercise - he was terribly lazy.
- If I have to exercise, I'd prefer walking or cycling to organized sport.
- I try and keep in good shape by exercising every day.
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Exercising & training
- aerial yoga
- Anti-Gravity yoga
- barbell
- bench press
- benchpress
- bodybuilding
- calisthenics
- cardio
- cross-trainer
- cross-training
- crunch
- firm sth up
- limber
- multigym
- Pilates
- split
- t'ai chi
- train
- warm
- weight training
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exercise verb (USE)
C2 [ T ] formal to use something:
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- We need to exercise some control on this situation before we find ourselves in serious trouble.
- The security forces exercised great restraint by not responding to hostile attacks and threats.
- The United Nations has exercised its authority to restore peace in the area.
- Politicians these days seem less interested in exercising real influence on world events.
- This piece of equipment doesn't exercise the shoulder and back muscles much.
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Using and misusing
- adopt
- adoption
- advantage
- avail
- avail yourself of sth
- be/go heavy on sth idiom
- go into sth
- go through sth
- gobble sth up
- heavy
- make capital out of sth idiom
- max
- mine
- unused
- upcycle
- upcycling
- usable
- usage
- use
- wear
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