calisthenics
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5.1
- noun
- /ˌkælɪsˈθɛnɪks/
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calistenia
- The coach led the team in calisthenics to help improve their flexibility and strength.
- calisthenics routines
- calisthenics or exercises
- activities such as calisthenics
Over time, those students who did two hours of extra calisthenics got stronger and stronger.
- Over time, those students who did two hours of extra calisthenics got stronger and stronger.
- Now let's start our day of training with some light calisthenics.
- And So what you did is you did calisthenics all night long.
- And I, you know, I started doing a lot more calisthenics.
- So there's the Muay Thai, but a lot of it is calisthenics, hundreds of pull ups, push ups, sit ups.
- This I've seen happen across a whole ton of friends that start doing yoga, friends that start doing Pilates or free running or calisthenics or whatever it might be.
- And they all like they all they did calisthenics.
Examples
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Every morning, she wakes up early to do her calisthenics before work.
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At the beginning of a testing session, subjects performed a 5-minute warm-up of stretching and calisthenics.
Academic text (1990) -
- Then there was calisthenics, a daily run for six miles.
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We'll start with some general calisthenics.
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Are you going to do some calisthenics?
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Now what we're going to do now is some calisthenics.
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Well, I do various calisthenics.
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Over time, those students who did two hours of extra calisthenics got stronger and stronger.
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When the sun gets a little lower tonight, I'm going to start a calisthenics routine.
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Each morning before breakfast, the Class I boys march down to the aft deck for calisthenics.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
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6.6
Exercises that use your own body weight to build strength and flexibility
How Intense
Surface Forms
Morphology
calisthenics = calisthenic (opaque) = calisthen + ics
The term is built from Greek combining elements rather than familiar English words, so learners cannot reliably infer the meaning from its parts.
Etymology
Calisthenics comes from Greek parts kalos ('beautiful') and sthenos ('strength'), so the word literally means 'beautiful strength'. So calisthenics are exercises that make your body strong and look good, often using no equipment, which is why the word now refers to simple fitness exercises for strength and flexibility.