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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
aerobics
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
step aerobics
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
class
▪ The sports hall of a public sector facility is used more for aerobics classes than was the case ten years ago.
▪ This entitles you to our complete workout facilities, including weight room, aerobics classes, and sauna.
▪ One team will include mums who attend aerobics classes at the stadium.
▪ By the time she was 35, she was teaching two aerobics classes and four half-hour sessions of calisthenics a day.
▪ She'd be sighted occasionally at the aerobics class as we went to breakfast.
▪ I recommend she attend one aerobics class and one step class a week.
step
▪ Still to come ... can the new craze for step aerobics actually damage your health?
▪ Voice over One complaint against step aerobics has been the number of unqualified people taking the classes.
▪ I was doing step aerobics, walking on the treadmill, swimming and using the fitness machines.
▪ Her leisure interests include step aerobics, badminton and the theatre, both musicals and comedy.
▪ Thousands of people have been practicing step aerobics, but over-enthusiasm could leave them flat on their backs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Have you ever tried aerobics?
▪ I do aerobics twice a week.
▪ My mum's started going to an aerobics class.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Fitness programs feature water aerobics, self-defense techniques and strength training.
▪ He started running an aerobics session in a church hall in Neasden, North London, and soon expanded.
▪ If it's raining, aerobics will be followed by table tennis and craft work.
▪ If it rains, the programme will be aerobics, papiermâché mask making, craft work and painting etc.
▪ Nigel also took up aerobics at his local sports centre.
▪ On my right, there was a waist-high wall overlooking an aerobics class in full swing one floor below.
▪ She was thankful she had taken aerobics classes and belonged to a walking club.
▪ This entitles you to our complete workout facilities, including weight room, aerobics classes, and sauna.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aerobics

Aerobics \Aer*o"bics\, n. pl., but sing. or pl. in usage

  1. physical exercises performed in a sustained and strenuous fashion designed to cause a temporary increase in respiration rate and heart rate, such a running, swimming, walking, or calisthenics. Calisthenic sessions in groups, performed by following a leader in moving to a rhythmic musical accompaniment, are a popular form of aerobics.

  2. a system of physical conditioning relying largely on aerobics exercises.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
aerobics

method of exercise and a fad in early 1980s, American English, coined 1968 by Kenneth H. Cooper, U.S. physician, from aerobic (also see -ics) on the notion of activities which require modest oxygen intake and thus can be maintained.

Wiktionary
aerobics

n. A form of exercise, designed to enhance one's cardiovascular fitness, normally performed to music

WordNet
aerobics

n. exercise that increases the need for oxygen [syn: aerobic exercise]

Wikipedia
Aerobics

Aerobics is a form of physical exercise that combines rhythmic aerobic exercise with stretching and strength training routines with the goal of improving all elements of fitness ( flexibility, muscular strength, and cardio-vascular fitness). It is usually performed to music and may be practiced in a group setting led by an instructor ( fitness professional), although it can be done solo and without musical accompaniment. With the goal of preventing illness and promoting physical fitness, practitioners perform various routines comprising a number of different dance-like exercises. Formal aerobics classes are divided into different levels of intensity and complexity. A well-balanced aerobics class will have five components: warm-up (5-10 minutes), cardio vascular conditioning (25-30 minutes), muscular strength and conditioning (10-15 minutes), cool-down (5-8 minutes) and stretching and flexibility (5-8 minutes).Aerobics classes may allow participants to select their level of participation according to their fitness level. Many gyms offer a variety of aerobic classes. Each class is designed for a certain level of experience and taught by a certified instructor with a specialty area related to their particular class.

Usage examples of "aerobics".

Hero Buss again, this time to a good neighborhood, across the street from an aerobics school for women.

If you are a new exerciser, do not add the extra resistance until you can sustain 40 minutes of aerobics.

A frenzy of doing dishes, Dustbusting, skiing, snowboarding, water aerobics.

Victor Kolinski, flexed again, admiring himself in his latest Danskin aerobics spandex bodysuit, in the mirrors of his personal Aurora Heights townhouse gym.

Aerobic resistance training is also far more effective and timesaving than the conventional approach to aerobics and weight training.

Fran Snow had been on the way to her water aerobics class at her Sarasota condominium, and she had no time to talk.

Designated a heritage building, its lower floor boasted some lovingly restored neon-work that identified it as the Fitness Connection Aerobics Center.

On the days that she remembered, her gym clothes were a pair of brown athletic shorts from ten years earlier when, in a fit of early love, she had joined an aerobics class, and a T-shirt with cats or flowers on it.

A respected Texas businessman had strangled his wife with her aerobics unitard and run off with his transsexual lover.

The presiding minister that night was the Reverend Buster Mahoney, CPA, Gamblers Anonymous member, honorary Laughlin deputy sheriff, and a licensed graduate of the Elko Religious Farm, a combination monastic retreat, soul aerobics center, and diploma mill.

Dressed in her corporate shoulder pads, she came across as so strong, so dynamic, she looked as if she might be an aerobics nutall freckles and sinewbut the sleeveless black cocktail dress she was wearing revealed a paleness, a pearly sheen, that struck Ford as exotic, distinctly old-world.

A member of Great Bods had a choice of yoga, aerobics, Tae Bo, or kick-boxing classes.

The condition and tone of her muscle and skin were the rewards for endless hours of aerobics and callisthenics and beauty care.

A gum-chewing teenage girl in a hot-pink catsuit walked past, heading for the stairs and the aerobics room.

Green had at one time been one of New England's most influential aerobics instructors even costarring once or twice, in the decade before digital dissemination, on the widely rented Buns of Steel aerobics home-video series and had been in high demand and very influential until, to his horror, in his late twenties, the absolute prime of an aerobics instructor's working life, either one of Mr.