(~s, exercising, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you ~ something such as your authority, your rights, or a good quality, you use it or put it into effect. (FORMAL)
They are merely exercising their right to free speech...
Britain has warned travellers to ~ prudence and care.
VERB: V n, V n
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Exercise is also a noun.
...the ~ of political and economic power...
Leadership does not rest on the ~ of force alone.
N-SING: N of n
2.
When you ~, you move your body energetically in order to get fit and to remain healthy.
She ~s two or three times a week...
Exercising the body does a great deal to improve one’s health.
VERB: V, V n
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Exercise is also a noun.
Lack of ~ can lead to feelings of depression and exhaustion...
N-UNCOUNT
3.
If a movement or activity ~s a part of your body, it keeps it strong, healthy, or in good condition.
They call rowing the perfect sport. It ~s every major muscle group.
VERB: V n
4.
Exercises are a series of movements or actions which you do in order to get fit, remain healthy, or practise for a particular physical activity.
I do special neck and shoulder ~s...
N-COUNT: usu pl
5.
Exercises are military activities and operations which are not part of a real war, but which allow the armed forces to practise for a real war.
General Powell predicted that in the future it might even be possible to stage joint military ~s...
N-COUNT: usu pl, also on N
6.
An ~ is a short activity or piece of work that you do, for example in school, which is designed to help you learn a particular skill.
Try working through the opening ~s in this chapter...
N-COUNT
7.
If you describe an activity as an ~ in a particular quality or result, you mean that it has that quality or result, especially when it was not intended to have it.
As an ~ in stating the obvious, this could scarcely be faulted...
Think what a waste of taxpayers’ money the whole ~ was.
N-COUNT: usu sing, usu N in n/-ing
8.
If something ~s you or your mind, you think or talk about it a great deal, especially because you are worried or concerned about it.
This has been a major problem exercising the minds of scientists around the world...
VERB: V n