exercise

Everyday

1. Exercise is moving your body to keep fit and healthy, like running, swimming or playing sport. tree →
2. An exercise is a movement or activity done to get stronger or better, like stretching exercises. tree →
3. An exercise is a piece of school work or a set of questions for practice. tree →
4. To exercise is to do physical activity, or to make an animal do it. tree →
5. An exercise book is a notebook for school work. tree →
6. To exercise a power or right is to use it. tree →

In the lessons

In health lessons, exercise strengthens the heart, lungs and muscles, helps sleep and improves mood; children need about an hour of active play a day. Warm up before and drink water. In school, exercises in maths and English practise skills. Phrases: get some exercise, do exercises, exercise book, breathing exercises, fire exercise (a drill).

Examples

• Exercise is good for your heart. tree →
• We do stretching exercises before PE. tree →
• Finish exercise 3 on page 20. tree →
• Write your answers in your exercise book. tree →
• You should exercise every day. tree →
• Grandad exercises his dog in the park. tree →
• Swimming is great exercise. tree →
• They exercise their power in different ways, and everywhere. tree →

Note

"Exercise" (physical activity in general) is uncountable: get some exercise. "An exercise" (one activity or task) is countable. Spelling: ex-er-cise. In maths, an exercise is a practice question; the answer usually uses the method just taught.

In Jewish tradition

In these verses it can mean to be busy with a task, to practise a wicked act such as robbery, or to occupy oneself with a matter.

Interpretation. Ecclesiastes sees the human task as a burden God gives people to labor at. In Psalm 131 the tradition reads humility: the psalmist does not busy himself with matters too great for him.

Examples

• I have seen the task which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith. (Writings ECC.3.10, JPS 1917) tree →
• The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have wronged the poor and needy, and have oppressed the stranger unlawfully. (Prophets EZK.22.29, JPS 1917) tree →
• LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; neither do I exercise myself in things too great, or in things too wonderful for me. (Writings PSA.131.1, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

"Exercise" (physical activity in general) is uncountable: get some exercise. "An exercise" (one activity or task) is countable. Spelling: ex-er-cise. In maths, an exercise is a practice question; the answer usually uses the method just taught.