Clues for the word "EXERCISE"
We've had 45 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 91 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on April 07, 2026.
Definition of exercise
- n. - The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in general; practice.
- n. - Exertion for the sake of training or improvement whether physical, intellectual, or moral; practice to acquire skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness, grace, etc.
- n. - Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to take exercise on horseback.
- n. - The performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty.
- n. - That which is done for the sake of exercising, practicing, training, or promoting skill, health, mental, improvement, moral discipline, etc.; that which is assigned or prescribed for such ends; hence, a disquisition; a lesson; a task; as, military or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition.
- n. - That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
- v. t. - To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to; to put in action habitually or constantly; to school or train; to exert repeatedly; to busy.
- v. t. - To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop; hence, also, to improve by practice; to discipline, and to use or to for the purpose of training; as, to exercise arms; to exercise one's self in music; to exercise troops.
- v. t. - To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious; to affect; to discipline; as, exercised with pain.
- v. t. - To put in practice; to carry out in action; to perform the duties of; to use; to employ; to practice; as, to exercise authority; to exercise an office.
- v. i. - To exercise one's self, as under military training; to drill; to take exercise; to use action or exertion; to practice gymnastics; as, to exercise for health or amusement.
Referring Clues
- Work out
- It can involve dumbbells and jerks
- Do crunches, say
- Doctor's suggestion
- Drill
- Crunch abs, e.g.
- Calisthenics
- Calisthenics, e.g.
- Do calisthenics
- Beneficial activity that ends the answers to starred clues
- Practise
- Hit the gym
- It's good to get some every so often
- Good thing to get daily
- Work out problem in textbook?
- Use
- Queen duty-bound to keep fit
- Workout cut without hesitation
- Training that may go by the book
- Put to use in your workout
- Physical activity, but it can be bookish
- Put in practice a duty involving Her Majesty
- Put into use
- Queen's cut off without practice
- Train
- Work out tax the Queen's saved
- Pianist's scales, e.g.
- Use gym
- Do push-ups & sit-ups
- Work out in fitness club
- Work out a couple of errors in VAT, perhaps
- Make use of train
- Duty to accommodate Queen in train
- Use train
- Work out duty to admit hesitation
- Keep fit
- Workout
- Practice
- Jog or do push-ups
- Do sit-ups, e.g.
- *Hit the gym (first 2 + last 4)
- Pole dancing, e.g.
- Does such a book give fitness advice?
- Take a Zumba class, e.g.
- Run, lift weights, etc.
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 07, 2026
- Your Life Choices - March 14, 2026
- Your Life Choices - February 17, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - February 05, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - December 16, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 05, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 18, 2025
- Daily American - July 31, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 24, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 01, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - June 16, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 26, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - February 08, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 24, 2024
- Your Life Choices - December 18, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - November 01, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 08, 2024
- Your Life Choices - October 03, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 31, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - June 01, 2024
- Your Life Choices - May 09, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - May 07, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - May 03, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - April 05, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - March 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - February 21, 2024
- LA Times - February 08, 2024
- USA Today - December 01, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - November 30, 2023
- Your Life Choices - November 28, 2023
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