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calisthenics

/kal-uhs-then-iks/US // ˌkæl əsˈθɛn ɪks //UK // (ˌkælɪsˈθɛnɪks) //

健美操,体操,健美运动,肌力训练

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : gymnastic exercises designed to develop physical health and vigor, usually performed with little or no special apparatus.
    • : the art, practice, or a session of such exercises.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inexercise
as ingymnastics

Examples

  • “I designed my own rehabilitation program—calisthenics, running and other exercises,” Bucca was quoted saying.

  • Meanwhile, CrossFit has taken the relatively solitary world of weightlifting and calisthenics and spun a communitarian dreamland.

  • I go up to my gym and do the main part of my workout, which will include various calisthenics, followed by a four-mile run.

  • Tops of trees still sweep toward the ground every few minutes, as if doing calisthenics.

  • Teachers led them in brisk, mostly stationary, calisthenics.

  • Colston's girls' day school includes domestic economy and calisthenics.

  • Miss Beach is quite competent to teach Emmie spelling and you dancing and calisthenics, and her manners are not your business.

  • Anyway, boys do not care greatly for calisthenics and most drills can be given without these trappings.

  • She was mercifully oblivious of the fact that her tub-calisthenics had made her no more exquisite than a cow in a kimono.

  • I wish them to be thoroughly taught, especially music and calisthenics.