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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.
Word History and Origins
Origin of setting-up exercise1
Example Sentences
In the first act of Broadway's bedroom romp Come On Strong, Actress Carroll Baker, 31, was lying on her back near the footlights pedaling air in a setting-up exercise.
Calisthenics may be called the big brother, the grown-up form, of the setting-up exercise.
The lad began moving his arms as if stretching himself or going through a sort of setting-up exercise.
"Setting-up exercise," commanded Jimmie sharply.
Here is what was once considered to be a reasonable morning "setting-up" exercise, and which, if coupled with a five-mile rapid walk and hopping first on one foot and then on the other for a half-mile, would prepare a man for his day's work.
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