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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
workout
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.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After a workout, he has a carbohydrate replacement drink, a diet fuel bar and 12 more supplements.
▪ Basically, 40 minutes per workout -- Mondays and Thursdays, chest and triceps.
▪ Do you workout or is it all artificial?
▪ Right fielder Raul Mondesi was the only absentee on Tuesday, when the Dodgers held their first full-squad workout.
▪ The video cover says it includes two 40-minute fitness workouts plus an extra 10-minute jump-start mini workout.
▪ Unless it would be for wealthy men interested in acquiring as trophy wives lapsed radicals who look great in workout gear.
▪ What it fails to say is that it is a high intensity workout which does not suit all fitness levels.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
workout

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.

Wiktionary
workout

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 produces strain.

WordNet
workout

n. the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit; "the doctor recommended regular exercise"; "he did some exercising"; "the physical exertion required by his work kept him fit" [syn: exercise, exercising, physical exercise, physical exertion]

Wikipedia
Workout (album)

Workout is an album by jazz tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley released on the Blue Note label in 1962. It features performances by Mobley, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Grant Green and Philly Joe Jones. The album was identified by Scott Yanow in his Allmusic essay "Hard Bop" as one of 17 Essential Hard Bop Recordings. In October 2014, it was released in Japan on SHM-CD, featuring a previously unissued take of " Three Coins in the Fountain".

Workout (RuPaul song)

"WorkOut" is the second single from RuPaul's album Red Hot. The song is a dance/house song about feeling liberated while dancing. The expression "work out" is (not exclusively) gay slang for expressing one's self exuberantly; it is similar to RuPaul's coined phrase "You better work!". Two versions of the single were made available; one version, with 8 tracks, was released by RuPaul on her own RuCo, Inc. label. The other version, a 3 track version released only in Germany, was released on the Dance Street label.

Workout (disambiguation)

A workout is a physical exercise session.

Work out or workout may also refer to:

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.