Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Gymnastic exercises designed to develop muscular tone and promote physical well-being.
- noun The practice or art of such exercises.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The science, art, or practice of healthful exercise of the body and limbs, to promote strength, gracefulness, and general fitness; light gymnastics.
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- noun plural
Gymnastic exercises , especially morning exercises, done to keep one's body healthy. - noun singular A
system of such exercises.
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- noun the practice of calisthenic exercises
- noun light exercises designed to promote general fitness
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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As freshmen we hadn’t actually attended them, but the main feature of the night was called calisthenics, and it was some cheesy aerobics routine.
Copy Cat Jacque Nimble 2010
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He was so clumsy he couldn't even do the side-straddle-hop in calisthenics.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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We come now to what I may call the calisthenics of the business, exercises which may be roughly compared to the technical exercises necessary in learning to play a musical instrument.
Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women Arnold Bennett 1899
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I heard Horton ask how many participants have his P90X program, and a good many hands went up among the hundred or so runners stretching and limbering up, doing what we used to call calisthenics before fitness became a multibillion-dollar industry
Politics Daily 2010
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I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core.
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I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core.
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I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core.
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They were not allowed to learn dancing; they had no outdoor games at all, not even croquet -- nothing whatever to exhilarate them and develop them physically except an hour's "deportment," the very mildest kind of calisthenics, in the big class-room once a fortnight, and the daily making of their little beds.
The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand
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Body weight drills such as calisthenics and plyometrics keep your nervous system sharp.
EzineArticles 2010
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I am a big proponent on implementing training methods such as calisthenics, plyometrics, and various other body resisted movements.
EzineArticles 2010
widdershins commented on the word calisthenics
According to Wikipedia, it comes from the Greek words kalos, 'beautiful' and sthénos, 'strength'.
December 26, 2007