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Definition of Exercise

Exercise The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in general; practice. Exertion for the sake of training or improvement whether physical, intellectual, or moral; practice to acquire skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness, grace, etc. Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to take exercise on horseback. The performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty. That which is done for the sake of exercising, practicing, training, or promoting skill, health, mental, improvement, moral discipline, etc.; that which is assigned or prescribed for such ends; hence, a disquisition; a lesson; a task; as, military or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition. That which gives practice; a trial; a test. To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to; to put in action habitually or constantly; to school or train; to exert repeatedly; to busy. To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop; hence, also, to improve by practice; to discipline, and to use or to for the purpose of training; as, to exercise arms; to exercise one's self in music; to exercise troops. 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; to affect; to discipline; as, exercised with pain. To put in practice; to carry out in action; to perform the duties of; to use; to employ; to practice; as, to exercise authority; to exercise an office. To exercise one's self, as under military training; to drill; to take exercise; to use action or exertion; to practice gymnastics; as, to exercise for health or amusement. Related Definitions: Acquire, Act, Action, Activity, Affect, Also, Amusement, An, And, Anxious, Application, Arms, As, Assigned, Attention, Authority, Bodily, Busy, By, Carry, Cause, Ceremony, Composition, Constantly, Develop, Discipline, Disquisition, Done, Drill, Duties, Duty, Effort, Employ, Employment, Especially, Exercise, Exercised, Exercising, Exert, Exertion, For, General, Give, Gives, Grace, Gymnastics, Habitual, Harass, Health, Healthy, Hence, Horseback, Hygienic, Improve, Improvement, In, Intellectual, Is, Keeping, Knowledge, Lesson, Make, Manner, Mental, Military, Mode, Moral, Move, Music, Musical, Naval, Occupation, Occupy, Of, Office, On, One, Or, Order, Out, Pain, Painful, Perfectness, Perform, Performance, Physical, Practice, Practicing, Prescribed, Promoting, Proper, Purpose, Put, Religious, Repeatedly, Sake, School, Self, Set, Setting, Skill, State, Such, Take, Task, Tax, Test, That, The, To, Train, Training, Trial, Under, Use, Vex, Vexatious, Virtue, Whether, Which, With, Worry

Exercise Quotations This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. Abraham Lincoln I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. Thomas Jefferson I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. Mark Twain Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. Thomas Jefferson What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Exercise Translations exercise in Afrikaans is oefen, oefening exercise in Dutch is oefenen, drillen exercise in Italian is uso, esercitare, esercitare exercise in Latin is exerceo exercise in Spanish is ejercicio, ejercer, profesar

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