Definition of Exercises

1. Noun. (plural of exercise) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of exercise) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Exercises

1. exercise [v] - See also: exercise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exercises

exercise book
exercise books
exercise device
exercise in futility
exercise machine
exercise machines
exercise radionuclide angiocardiography
exercise set
exercise test
exercise therapy
exercise tolerance
exercise treadmill
exercised
exerciser
exercisers
exercises (current term)
exercises in futility
exerciseth
exercisible
exercising
exercising weight
exercitant
exercitation
exercitations
exercitive
exercitives
exercycle
exercycles
exeresis
exergame

Literary usage of Exercises

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in by Maria Montessori, Henry Wyman Holmes (1912)
"The cylinders (sense exercises). Among these the most useful exercise is that of the cylinders (solid insets). The child here begins to fix his attention. ..."

2. Manual of Serum Diagnosis: Deep Breathing and a Complete System for by Bernarr Macfadden, Otto Rostoski (1904)
"Still, it is during the use of specific exercises that one naturally pays the most attention to the subject of deep breathing. At such times, the mind is ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1806)
"And yet so sensible were the Romans of the exercises, imperfection of valour ... Military exercises were the important VOL. I. C and * See Gronovius de ..."

4. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1839)
"I readily discovered the prodigious in. fluence which this primary fact exercises on the-whole course of ..."

5. A Treatise on Gymnasticks by Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1828)
"I. PREPARATORY exercises. ALL preparatory exercises have for their object to strengthen and to render limber the lower extremities, and to accustom the body ..."

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