physical
- adjective
- /ˈfɪzɪkəl/
- She signed up for a physical fitness class to improve her strength and stamina.
- physical activity
- physical education
- physical health
I'm looking at the mental and physical state of my clients.
- I'm looking at the mental and physical state of my clients.
- Second month I started training like physical training on my own.
- By the way, fitness, both physical and mental fitness, right?
- And you are so physical in your comedy.
- We take for granted the physical capacity that one has.
- Biden needs to show physical and mental strength.
- So strength is is seen to be a physical aspect.
- And questions that reflect performance instead of physical appearance or love life.
- It's almost like a the physical need to expel bad.
- So at the moment of extreme pain, physical pain, to find fun.
- It was a hard physical trip for us.
- Does that have to do with physical, usually exhaustion?
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Physical fitness is very important to Shannon.
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I'm looking at the mental and physical state of my clients.
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There appear to be no real physical problems.
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The private school children all had physical education at the time of the study.
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We take for granted the physical capacity that one has.
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What's your favorite form of physical exercise?
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How 'bout a little physical therapy?
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No physical fitness, no social popularity, and most important, no girls.
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What is the most physically demanding job in America?
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Pros of waiting tables: salary, the social aspect, the physical exercise it provides, free alcohol.
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Synonyms
Antonyms
Compounds
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A treatment that uses exercise and massage to help people move and reduce pain
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A person who helps people regain movement and strength after injury using exercises and hands-on care
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A quality in a material you can see or measure without changing it, like density
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A change where something changes state or appearance but stays the same substance
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A change or movement in matter and energy that happens in nature and in experiments, like melting
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A natural event that involves matter and energy and can be seen or measured
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Study of how chemicals behave and change using physics and math
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A process that helps people get back strength and movement after illness, injury, or disability
The study of Earth's natural features and how they change, like mountains and rivers
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Care that helps someone regain movement and strength after an injury
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A solid object that swings around a fixed horizontal axis that is not through its middle
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The amount to replace a building or machine after subtracting wear and age
How Mind-Focused
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Physical comes from the Greek root physis, which is also in the word physique ('body shape'), so it has a long link to the body. That is why physical often means 'relating to the body or bodily activity'.