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workout
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Word definitions for workout in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1909, "boxing bout for training," from work (v.) + out (adv.). General sense of "spell of strenuous physical exercise" is attested by 1922. Verbal phrase work out "solve" (a problem, etc.) is from 1848. Sense of "succeed" attested by 1909.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE good ▪ Bruno commented later that he was getting a good workout for his stomach. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I always feel better after a good workout . ▪ Start your workout with some gentle stretching exercises. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An exercise session; a period of physical exercise. 2 A schedule or program of specific exercises, especially one intended to achieve a particular goal. 3 (context by extension English) Any activity that requires much physical or mental effort, or ...
Usage examples of workout.
The American Heart Association also reports that regular resistance workouts benefit the cardiovascular system by lowering blood pressure and reducing cholesterol levels, which in turn reduce the risk of stroke and heart disease.
Some people use it for stretching purposes only, while others prefer the more aerobic yoga positions to get a good cardiovascular and stretching workout.
To live longer and best protect your joints from the onslaught of impact, the best stamina workouts you can do are swimming, rowing, cycling, and exercising on an elliptical machine.
Then they stood him up against one of the bare walls and Fatso, assisted by Turnipseed and Pfc Hanson both of whom had been on shift in the messhall, gave him his workout, relieving each other whenever they got tired.
His workout T-shirt had the sleeves cut off and a cartoon on the front that made a joke about his shlong being big.
A vibrant sixty-year-old, he kept his sparkplug of a body in terrific shape by either jogging or spending an hour a day at the workout room in the basement of the federal courthouse.
She liked sashaying around in her sexy workout togs and thong bikinis.
Every day he did a strenuous physical workout that at home port at Yokosuka was directed by his sensei.
She was wearing black spandex biking pants with a Day-Glo green stripe down the leg and a matching black halter sports top and pale gray Reebok workout shoes.
He used his pass to have a swim in one of the grottoed pools the Triangular City maintained for midlevel bureaucrats and followed up with a workout in the gym.
Even his physical welfare seemed to be covered by a selection of exercise regimens and workout tapes that went all the way to an exercise in psuedo 3D that was supposed to prevent confinement-induced myopia.
She took off again, straight through the hedge passage, staying low, bent over as she ran, grateful for every day of-her workouts, her right arm held up, her hand balled in a fist.
Cyclone and Sun Raider were leaving Monday or Tuesday, so they could get in a couple of workouts before the race.
Nancy Molineaux learned about a personal letter routed that way, her bitchiness would have another workout.
My hair was still damp from the workout and I was getting chillier by the minute, longing to hit the shower before my muscles stiffened up.