physical exercise

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Noun1.physical exercise - the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fitphysical exercise - the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit; "the doctor recommended regular exercise"; "he did some exercising"; "the physical exertion required by his work kept him fit"
cardiopulmonary exercise - exercise intended to strengthen the circulatory system
gymnastic exercise - (gymnastics) an exercise designed to develop and display strength and agility and balance (usually performed with or on some gymnastic apparatus)
kick up - raising the feet backward with the hands on the ground; a first movement in doing a handstand
elbow grease, exertion, effort, travail, sweat - use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion"
exercise set, set - several exercises intended to be done in series; "he did four sets of the incline bench press"
anaerobic exercise, bodybuilding, muscle building, musclebuilding - exercise that builds muscles through tension
calisthenics, callisthenics - light exercises designed to promote general fitness; "several different calisthenics were illustrated in the video"
isometric exercise, isometrics - muscle-building exercises (or a system of musclebuilding exercises) involving muscular contractions against resistance without movement (the muscles contracts but the length of the muscle does not change)
isotonic exercise - exercise in which opposing muscles contract and there is controlled movement (tension is constant while the lengths of the muscles change); "the classic isotonic exercise is lifting free weights"
Kegel exercises, pubococcygeus exercises - exercises for women designed to improve the ability to hold urine
stretching, stretch - exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
arm exercise - exercise designed to strengthen the arm muscles
back exercise - exercise designed to strengthen the back muscles
leg exercise - exercise designed to strengthen the leg muscles
neck exercise - exercise designed to strengthen the neck muscles
stomach exercise, tummy crunch - an exercise designed to strengthen the abdominal muscles
yoga - a system of exercises practiced as part of the Hindu discipline to promote control of the body and mind
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Back then, the Iranian ambassador further noted that "politicized calls on Iranians to not exercize their right to visit their homeland is a matter of regret".
Caption: EXERCIZE--Women exercize in a Tehran park for women only in Tehran.
This maxim urges Andrea Sperelli to apply creativity to his way of living, just as he would to a conventional work of art, and to exercize his individuality in this endeavour.
Accordingly, head of UNIFIL Commission, Michel Beary, contacted directly both sides to help resolve the matter, urging them to exercize the maximum extent of self-control.
Although Ruitenberg, after Balibar, acknowledges that there is an inherent tension between these two aspects of citizenship, a clarifying point or question arises: How can citizens reclaim their constitutive powers, when contemporary nation-states still exercize their immense power to delimit citizenship in statutory terms?
Maybe if there were a quick photo shoot with the Gazette on a community project, or a back-slapping exercize in full council, there would have been a decent turnout, but to support working class trade unionists, sadly none are interested.
The most obvious but not the only example is that of the missions organized to monitor elections or to strengthen rights and national legislations following the electoral observation exercize. Political membership of the same grouping can help make international initiatives more effective and objective both at the level of Assembly decisions and at that of preventive diplomatic and 'moral suasion'.
In this case, the dominant firm which purchased on an exclusive basis the premium contents assumed the role of a market gate-keeper (namely, of a firm able to exercize a significant influence on the premium contents market) delivering contents to its own platform and to competing platforms on a non discriminatory basis.
To get an answer to this we are referred way across west of the Rocky Mountains to Washington State University where Professor Warwick Bailey is the Dean of the Veterinary School and one of the world's greatest experts on Equine Exercize Physiology.
The goals of this exercize were: to clearly show to all the participants the basic principles of profile roasting theory; to perform roasts with profile recipes that could illustrate the potential of this technique to improve the cup; and the main focus of this event was, to collect reliable data by obtaining cupping results and conclusions of a large number of cupping professionals representing roasters from throughout Brazil.
(46) Article 1D's function was to ensure that if for some reason either of these agencies failed to exercize its role before a final resolution of the refugee situation, that agency's function was to be transferred to the UNHCR and the Refugee Convention would fully and immediately apply without preconditions to the Palestinian refugees.