Exercise Extra Examples Public Regular Health Lack Physical

• swimming is good exercise.
• the importance of regular exercise
• health problems resulting from a lack of physical exercise
• strenuous/vigorous exercise

exercise

1. physical or mental activity that you do to stay healthy or become stronger
• Swimming is good exercise.
• the importance of regular exercise
• health problems resulting from a lack of physical exercise
• strenuous/vigorous exercise
• gentle/moderate exercise
• I don't get much exercise sitting in the office all day.
• John never does any exercise.
• to take exercise
• Diet and exercise are equally important.
• The mind needs exercise as well as the body.

Extra Examples

• The doctor recommended regular exercise.
• Lack of exercise is a risk factor in heart disease.
• Stop frequently to rest during exercise until you are fitter.
• Try to do fifteen minutes of gentle exercise every day.
• Weight-bearing exercise increases the health of bones.
• Do you take enough exercise?
2. a set of movements or activities that you do to stay healthy or develop a skill
• relaxation/stretching exercises
• Remember to do your breathing exercises every day.
• Perforrm these exercises carefully to avoid injury.
• Repeat the exercise ten times on each leg.
• exercises for the piano

Extra Examples

• Combine yoga with stretching and floor exercises.
• He began his daily exercises.
• I did try some basic relaxation exercises.
• Mental exercises can help older people to sustain their mental abilities.
• She recommends the following exercises to increase circulation.
• This is a great exercise for the upper back.
• You can devise your own exercises to music.
• You may find it helpful to perform this exercise in front of the mirror.
3. a set of questions in a book that tests your knowledge or practises a skill
• grammar exercises
• I want you to do the next exercise in the book in pairs.
• Do exercise one for homework.

Extra Examples

• Ask your students to try this exercise before the next class.
• You will complete these exercises for homework.
• Role-playing situations allows a finer assessment to be made than in pen and paper exercises.
4. the use of power, a skill, a quality or a right to make something happen
• the exercise of power by the government
• One of these powers is the exercise of discretion by police officers.

Extra Examples

• Sovereignty means more than just the exercise of power.
• to limit the exercise of political power
• the free exercise of informed choice
5. an activity that is designed to achieve a particular result
• a public consultation exercise
• a communications exercise
• In the end it proved a pointless exercise.
• an exercise in public relations
• Staying calm was an exercise in self-control.

Extra Examples

• As a public relations exercise the festival was clearly a success.
• The company has just carried out a major cost-cutting exercise.
• The object of the exercise is to increase public awareness of environmental issues.
• This is not a purely academic exercise: it should have a real impact on the way we work as a department.
• The whole consultation process was just a cynical political exercise.
• The Government instituted a massive exercise in social control.
• The seminar was a valuable exercise in information exchange.
• We have conducted training exercises in seven separate states.
• We run team-building exercises with employees at each office.
6. a set of activities for training soldiers
• military exercises
• He was injured in a training exercise.

Extra Examples

• The troops go on exercises twice a year.
• US forces took part in joint exercises with the British Navy.
• Half the regiment was away on exercise.
• We were out on a field exercise.
• They recently completed a four-week exercise in Poland.
7. ceremonies
• college graduation exercises

Word Origin

• Middle English (in the sense ‘application of a right’): via Old French from Latin exercitium, from exercere ‘keep busy, practise’, from ex- ‘thoroughly’ + arcere ‘keep in or away’.