Translate exercise | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of exercise
noun
1activity requiring physical effort, carried out especially to sustain or improve health and fitness:exercise improves your heart and lung power loosening-up exercises a task or activity done to practice or test a skill:there are exercises at the end of each chapter to check comprehension a process or activity carried out for a specific purpose, especially one concerned with a specified area or skill:an exercise in public relations (often
exercises)
a military drill or training maneuver. (
exercises)
North American ceremonies:graduation exercises
2the use or application of a faculty, right, or process:the free exercise of religion
verb
[with object] 1use or apply (a faculty, right, or process):control is exercised by the Board anyone receiving a suspect package should exercise extreme caution
2 [no object] engage in physical activity to sustain or improve health and fitness; take exercise:she still exercised every day exert (part of the body) to promote or improve muscular strength:raise your knee to exercise the upper leg and hip muscles cause (an animal) to engage in exercise:she exercised her dogs before breakfast
3occupy the thoughts of; worry or perplex:the knowledge that a larger margin was possible still exercised him
