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setting-up exercise
[ set-ing-uhp ]
noun
- any of a set of exercises, as deep knee bends and push-ups, for improving one's posture, muscle tone, or limberness, or for reducing one's weight.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of setting-up exercise1
First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences
"Well, if we can't have a shower bath, let's take a quick cold sponge and then have a little setting up exercise," suggested Tom.
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I shall profit by it immediately and introduce a kind of setting-up exercise at least.
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Calisthenics may be called the big brother, the grown-up form, of the setting-up exercise.
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The lad began moving his arms as if stretching himself or going through a sort of setting-up exercise.
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