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adj
- Physically active.
- vigorously active
- Having a muscular, well developed body, being in shape.
- (video games) Of a level in a Super Mario game: with an emphasis on platforming challenge, often involving precise jumps between floating platforms above a bottomless pit, and having upbeat background music.
- (not comparable) Having to do with athletes.
- An attribute of a motion or play which requires fine physical ability.
- relating to or befitting athletics or athletes
- having a sturdy and well proportioned body
noun
noun
- (bodybuilding) An excessively muscled person.
- (by extension) A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of equipment and rigging, and often put to other uses such as accommodation or storage.
- (figuratively) A large structure with a dominating presence.
- (figuratively) A big (and possibly clumsy) person.
- a ship that has been wrecked and abandoned
- a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
verb
- (transitive, obsolete except British, dialectal) To remove the entrails of; to disembowel.
- To temporarily house (goods, people, etc.) in such a hulk.
- (intransitive) To be a hulk, that is, a large, hulking, and often imposing presence.
- To reduce (a ship) to a non-functional hulk.
- (intransitive) Of a (large) person: to act or move slowly and clumsily.
- (transitive) To move (a large, hulking body).
- appear very large or occupy a commanding position
noun
- A healthy, vigorous person.
- (sports, cricket) A difficult catch.
- (Internet slang) A video that unexpectedly frightens the viewer by cutting to a loud scream and disturbing image.
- (music) A march played at a circus to enliven the crowd.
- (sports, surfing) A very large wave.
- (sports, soccer, golf) A powerful shot.
- A person who is extremely loud and boisterous during sexual intercourse.
- (journalism, slang) A large, attention-getting headline.
- Something exceptionally good.
- One who screams; one who shouts; one who sings harshly.
- (sports, baseball) A very hard hit.
- (slang) An effeminate gay man; a man who is obviously homosexual.
- (sports, Australian rules football) A particularly high mark (clean catch of a kicked ball).
- Any bird in the taxonomic family Anhimidae, endemic to South America, being large, bulky birds with a small downy head, long legs and large feet.
- (journalism, slang) An exclamation mark.
- a sensational newspaper headline
- gooselike aquatic bird of South America having a harsh trumpeting call
- a very hard hit ball
- someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice
noun
- exercising in preparation for strenuous activity
- adjustments made to an engine to improve its performance
- A match or race (frequently one exhibition in nature) contested as preparation for a match or race of high stakes.
- A series of preparations for vigorous exercise; a warm-up
- A series of adjustments to an engine in order to improve its performance
verb
- do physical exercise
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
- put to use
- give a workout to
- learn by repetition
- (transitive) To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
- (intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.
- (now often passive voice) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.
- To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
noun
- the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit
- the act of using
- an action, often used negatively and without consequences
- (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches
- a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
- (countable, uncountable) Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.
- (countable) Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
- A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
verb
- do physical exercise
- work out in detail
- make a mathematical calculation or computation
- happen in a certain way, leading to, producing, or resulting in a certain outcome, often well
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- give a workout to
- come up with
- be calculated
- (transitive) To smooth or perfect.
- (mining) To remove all the mineral that can be profitably exploited.
- (intransitive, US) To earn a wage working away from one's farm.
- (transitive, intransitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see work, out.
- (transitive) To calculate.
- (transitive) To make sense of.
- (intransitive) To conclude with the correct solution.
- (transitive) To bring about or cause to happen by work or effort.
- (intransitive) To exercise, especially by lifting weights.
- (transitive) To resolve; to find a solution for.
- (transitive) To develop or devise in detail; to elaborate.
- (intransitive) To succeed; to result in a satisfactory situation.
- (transitive) To decide.
- (transitive) To strengthen a part of one’s body by exercise.
verb
- have and exercise
- maintain for use and service
- state categorically
- keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
- supply with necessities and support
- support against an opponent
- stick to correctly or closely
- maintain by writing regular records
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- state or assert
- To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert.
- To keep in good condition and working order.
- To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).
noun
- (bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.
- (uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore, or grain.
- Majority, balance.
- (countable) A cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
- The major part of something.
- Size, specifically, volume.
- (brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
- Gist.
- Any huge body or structure.
- Dietary fibre.
- (bodybuilding) A period where one tries to gain muscle.
- the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part
- the property of something that is great in magnitude
- the property possessed by a large mass
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
- (intransitive) To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
- (intransitive) To grow in size; to swell or expand.
- (transitive) To put or hold in bulk.
- cause to bulge or swell outwards
- stick out or up
- to gain size and weight by means of exercise and diet
noun
- exercise that conditions the body
- a substance used in washing (clothing or hair) to make things softer
- a trainer of athletes
- Fabric conditioner, fabric softener.
- Anything that improves the condition of something.
- Hair conditioner.
- An agricultural machine that crimps and crushes newly cut hay to promote faster and more even drying.
- Someone who trains athletes or racehorses.
noun
- the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit
- A schedule or program of specific exercises, especially one intended to achieve a particular goal.
- An exercise session; a period of physical exercise.
- (by extension) Any activity that requires much physical or mental effort, or produces strain.
noun
- An exceptionally physically fit person.
- (US, Canada) A person who actively participates in physical sports, especially with great skill; a sportsperson.
- A participant in any of a group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking.
- a person trained to compete in sports
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A person who jogs (as exercise).
- someone who runs a steady slow pace (usually for exercise)
- (informal) A baby jogger.
- (now chiefly Australia) A shoe designed for jogging; a running shoe.
- A tracksuit.
- A printing press operator who removes, jogs, and stacks the sheets or signatures of paper.
- The trousers of a tracksuit.
verb
noun
- A state of intensive activity.
- (UK, politics) A strategy for economic growth through technological development, especially associated with the government of Harold Wilson.
- The state or temperature at which matter emits white light.
- A critical situation which causes a significant development in something; a force that metaphorically forges something.
- the hotness of something heated until it turns white
verb
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To tread, as a path.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- move rhythmically
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
adj
noun
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A rhythm.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- A beatnik.
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
noun
- a healthy capacity for vigorous activity
- (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs
- an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)
- forceful exertion
- any source of usable power
- enterprising or ambitious drive
- (physics) A quantity that denotes the ability to do work and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance²/time² (ML²/T²) or the equivalent.
- (Internet slang) An atmosphere, aura, or vibe.
- The impetus behind all motion and all activity.
- (Eastern Orthodoxy, theology, often in the plural) The external actions and influences resulting from an entity’s internal nature (ousia) and by which it is made manifest, as opposed to that internal nature itself; the aspect of an entity that can affect the wider world and be apprehended by other beings.
- An intangible, modifiable force (usually characterized as either 'positive' or 'negative') believed in some New Age religions to emanate from a person, place or thing and which is (or can be) preserved and transferred in human interactions; shared mood or group habit.
- The capacity to do work.
- (roleplaying games, video games, board games) A measure of how many actions a player or unit can take; in the fantasy genre often called magic points or mana.
noun
- a healthy capacity for vigorous activity
- an energetic style
- the property of being able to survive and grow
- (biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms
- Energy or vigour.
- The capacity to live and develop.
- That which distinguishes living from nonliving things; life, animateness.
verb
noun
- (historical) A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It was used principally as a means of prison discipline.
- A piece of indoor sporting equipment used to allow for the motions of running or walking while staying in one place.
- A mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt.
- (figurative) A process or situation in which continued effort leads to or is required for remaining at a particular state or level without moving ahead.
- an exercise device consisting of an endless belt on which a person can walk or jog without changing place
- a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps
- a job involving drudgery and confinement
verb
- make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity
- attach the limber
- (intransitive, figuratively) To prepare; to make oneself ready.
- To attach a limber.
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) more limber or flexible.
- (intransitive) To stretch one's muscles to make them more limber, usually as a preparation for physical exercise.
verb
- make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity
- become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner
- cause to become unblocked
- cause to feel relaxed
- become less tense, rest, or take one's ease
- (intransitive) To become loose; to loosen; to relax (a muscle, etc.).
- (colloquial) To relax; to act less seriously.
verb
- make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity
- get warm or warmer
- cause to do preliminary exercises so as to stretch the muscles
- run until the normal working temperature is reached
- become more friendly or open
- (Internet, transitive) Synonym of warm (“send mail from a domain to improve reputation”).
- (intransitive, transitive) To reach, or cause to reach, a normal operating temperature (of a car for example).
- (transitive) To heat or reheat (e.g. food).
- (computing, transitive) Synonym of warm (“prepopulate a cache”).
- (intransitive) To prepare for an activity by carrying out a practice or preparation routine.
- (intransitive) To become warmer.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Synonym of warm (to favor increasingly). [with to]
- (intransitive) To do gentle exercise, stretching etc., in order to prepare the body for more vigorous exercise.
- (transitive) To make (an audience) enthusiastic or animated before a show.
noun
adj
- Extremely muscled
- (slang) Of a person: having large, well-developed muscles; muscular.
- (usually followed by up) Upset; experiencing strong negative emotion.
- (chiefly African-American Vernacular, dialectal) Swollen, enlarged.
- Full (of something); bursting with.
- (slang) Of a person: erect; having an erection of the penis; sexually aroused, hard.
- Extremely proud or arrogant.
verb
noun
noun
- A lively, high-energy person.
- (precise) The type of handgun with the chamber integral with the barrel.
- (American football) An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, but closer than in a shotgun formation, with a running back lined up behind him.
- (loosely) A handgun
- The mechanical component of a fuse in a bomb or torpedo responsible for firing the detonator.
- a firearm that is held and fired with one hand
verb
noun
adj
noun
- (figuratively) An energetic person.
- (electromagnetism) An electricity generator; a dynamo-electric machine.
- (astrophysics) The mechanism by which a celestial body, such as the Earth or a star, generates a magnetic field.
- generator consisting of a coil (the armature) that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet (the field magnet) causing a current to flow in the armature
noun
- (bodybuilding) An excessively muscled person.
- (by extension) A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of equipment and rigging, and often put to other uses such as accommodation or storage.
- (figuratively) A large structure with a dominating presence.
- (figuratively) A big (and possibly clumsy) person.
- a ship that has been wrecked and abandoned
- a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
verb
- (transitive, obsolete except British, dialectal) To remove the entrails of; to disembowel.
- To temporarily house (goods, people, etc.) in such a hulk.
- (intransitive) To be a hulk, that is, a large, hulking, and often imposing presence.
- To reduce (a ship) to a non-functional hulk.
- (intransitive) Of a (large) person: to act or move slowly and clumsily.
- (transitive) To move (a large, hulking body).
- appear very large or occupy a commanding position
noun
- A healthy, vigorous person.
- (sports, cricket) A difficult catch.
- (Internet slang) A video that unexpectedly frightens the viewer by cutting to a loud scream and disturbing image.
- (music) A march played at a circus to enliven the crowd.
- (sports, surfing) A very large wave.
- (sports, soccer, golf) A powerful shot.
- A person who is extremely loud and boisterous during sexual intercourse.
- (journalism, slang) A large, attention-getting headline.
- Something exceptionally good.
- One who screams; one who shouts; one who sings harshly.
- (sports, baseball) A very hard hit.
- (slang) An effeminate gay man; a man who is obviously homosexual.
- (sports, Australian rules football) A particularly high mark (clean catch of a kicked ball).
- Any bird in the taxonomic family Anhimidae, endemic to South America, being large, bulky birds with a small downy head, long legs and large feet.
- (journalism, slang) An exclamation mark.
- a sensational newspaper headline
- gooselike aquatic bird of South America having a harsh trumpeting call
- a very hard hit ball
- someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice
noun
- exercising in preparation for strenuous activity
- adjustments made to an engine to improve its performance
- A match or race (frequently one exhibition in nature) contested as preparation for a match or race of high stakes.
- A series of preparations for vigorous exercise; a warm-up
- A series of adjustments to an engine in order to improve its performance
noun
- (bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.
- (uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore, or grain.
- Majority, balance.
- (countable) A cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
- The major part of something.
- Size, specifically, volume.
- (brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
- Gist.
- Any huge body or structure.
- Dietary fibre.
- (bodybuilding) A period where one tries to gain muscle.
- the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part
- the property of something that is great in magnitude
- the property possessed by a large mass
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
- (intransitive) To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
- (intransitive) To grow in size; to swell or expand.
- (transitive) To put or hold in bulk.
- cause to bulge or swell outwards
- stick out or up
- to gain size and weight by means of exercise and diet
noun
- exercise that conditions the body
- a substance used in washing (clothing or hair) to make things softer
- a trainer of athletes
- Fabric conditioner, fabric softener.
- Anything that improves the condition of something.
- Hair conditioner.
- An agricultural machine that crimps and crushes newly cut hay to promote faster and more even drying.
- Someone who trains athletes or racehorses.
verb
- do physical exercise
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
- put to use
- give a workout to
- learn by repetition
- (transitive) To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
- (intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.
- (now often passive voice) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.
- To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
noun
- the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit
- the act of using
- an action, often used negatively and without consequences
- (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches
- a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
- (countable, uncountable) Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.
- (countable) Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
- A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
noun
- the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit
- A schedule or program of specific exercises, especially one intended to achieve a particular goal.
- An exercise session; a period of physical exercise.
- (by extension) Any activity that requires much physical or mental effort, or produces strain.
noun
- An exceptionally physically fit person.
- (US, Canada) A person who actively participates in physical sports, especially with great skill; a sportsperson.
- A participant in any of a group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking.
- a person trained to compete in sports
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A person who jogs (as exercise).
- someone who runs a steady slow pace (usually for exercise)
- (informal) A baby jogger.
- (now chiefly Australia) A shoe designed for jogging; a running shoe.
- A tracksuit.
- A printing press operator who removes, jogs, and stacks the sheets or signatures of paper.
- The trousers of a tracksuit.
verb
noun
- A state of intensive activity.
- (UK, politics) A strategy for economic growth through technological development, especially associated with the government of Harold Wilson.
- The state or temperature at which matter emits white light.
- A critical situation which causes a significant development in something; a force that metaphorically forges something.
- the hotness of something heated until it turns white
noun
- a healthy capacity for vigorous activity
- (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs
- an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)
- forceful exertion
- any source of usable power
- enterprising or ambitious drive
- (physics) A quantity that denotes the ability to do work and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance²/time² (ML²/T²) or the equivalent.
- (Internet slang) An atmosphere, aura, or vibe.
- The impetus behind all motion and all activity.
- (Eastern Orthodoxy, theology, often in the plural) The external actions and influences resulting from an entity’s internal nature (ousia) and by which it is made manifest, as opposed to that internal nature itself; the aspect of an entity that can affect the wider world and be apprehended by other beings.
- An intangible, modifiable force (usually characterized as either 'positive' or 'negative') believed in some New Age religions to emanate from a person, place or thing and which is (or can be) preserved and transferred in human interactions; shared mood or group habit.
- The capacity to do work.
- (roleplaying games, video games, board games) A measure of how many actions a player or unit can take; in the fantasy genre often called magic points or mana.
noun
- a healthy capacity for vigorous activity
- an energetic style
- the property of being able to survive and grow
- (biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms
- Energy or vigour.
- The capacity to live and develop.
- That which distinguishes living from nonliving things; life, animateness.
noun
noun
- A lively, high-energy person.
- (precise) The type of handgun with the chamber integral with the barrel.
- (American football) An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, but closer than in a shotgun formation, with a running back lined up behind him.
- (loosely) A handgun
- The mechanical component of a fuse in a bomb or torpedo responsible for firing the detonator.
- a firearm that is held and fired with one hand
verb
verb
- make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity
- get warm or warmer
- cause to do preliminary exercises so as to stretch the muscles
- run until the normal working temperature is reached
- become more friendly or open
- (Internet, transitive) Synonym of warm (“send mail from a domain to improve reputation”).
- (intransitive, transitive) To reach, or cause to reach, a normal operating temperature (of a car for example).
- (transitive) To heat or reheat (e.g. food).
- (computing, transitive) Synonym of warm (“prepopulate a cache”).
- (intransitive) To prepare for an activity by carrying out a practice or preparation routine.
- (intransitive) To become warmer.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Synonym of warm (to favor increasingly). [with to]
- (intransitive) To do gentle exercise, stretching etc., in order to prepare the body for more vigorous exercise.
- (transitive) To make (an audience) enthusiastic or animated before a show.
noun
noun
adj
noun
- (figuratively) An energetic person.
- (electromagnetism) An electricity generator; a dynamo-electric machine.
- (astrophysics) The mechanism by which a celestial body, such as the Earth or a star, generates a magnetic field.
- generator consisting of a coil (the armature) that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet (the field magnet) causing a current to flow in the armature
verb
- do physical exercise
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
- put to use
- give a workout to
- learn by repetition
- (transitive) To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
- (intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.
- (now often passive voice) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.
- To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
noun
- the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit
- the act of using
- an action, often used negatively and without consequences
- (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches
- a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
- (countable, uncountable) Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.
- (countable) Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
- A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
verb
- do physical exercise
- work out in detail
- make a mathematical calculation or computation
- happen in a certain way, leading to, producing, or resulting in a certain outcome, often well
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- give a workout to
- come up with
- be calculated
- (transitive) To smooth or perfect.
- (mining) To remove all the mineral that can be profitably exploited.
- (intransitive, US) To earn a wage working away from one's farm.
- (transitive, intransitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see work, out.
- (transitive) To calculate.
- (transitive) To make sense of.
- (intransitive) To conclude with the correct solution.
- (transitive) To bring about or cause to happen by work or effort.
- (intransitive) To exercise, especially by lifting weights.
- (transitive) To resolve; to find a solution for.
- (transitive) To develop or devise in detail; to elaborate.
- (intransitive) To succeed; to result in a satisfactory situation.
- (transitive) To decide.
- (transitive) To strengthen a part of one’s body by exercise.
verb
- have and exercise
- maintain for use and service
- state categorically
- keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
- supply with necessities and support
- support against an opponent
- stick to correctly or closely
- maintain by writing regular records
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- state or assert
- To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert.
- To keep in good condition and working order.
- To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).
verb
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To tread, as a path.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- move rhythmically
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
adj
noun
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A rhythm.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- A beatnik.
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
verb
noun
- (historical) A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It was used principally as a means of prison discipline.
- A piece of indoor sporting equipment used to allow for the motions of running or walking while staying in one place.
- A mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt.
- (figurative) A process or situation in which continued effort leads to or is required for remaining at a particular state or level without moving ahead.
- an exercise device consisting of an endless belt on which a person can walk or jog without changing place
- a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps
- a job involving drudgery and confinement
verb
- make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity
- attach the limber
- (intransitive, figuratively) To prepare; to make oneself ready.
- To attach a limber.
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) more limber or flexible.
- (intransitive) To stretch one's muscles to make them more limber, usually as a preparation for physical exercise.
verb
- make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity
- become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner
- cause to become unblocked
- cause to feel relaxed
- become less tense, rest, or take one's ease
- (intransitive) To become loose; to loosen; to relax (a muscle, etc.).
- (colloquial) To relax; to act less seriously.
verb
- make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity
- get warm or warmer
- cause to do preliminary exercises so as to stretch the muscles
- run until the normal working temperature is reached
- become more friendly or open
- (Internet, transitive) Synonym of warm (“send mail from a domain to improve reputation”).
- (intransitive, transitive) To reach, or cause to reach, a normal operating temperature (of a car for example).
- (transitive) To heat or reheat (e.g. food).
- (computing, transitive) Synonym of warm (“prepopulate a cache”).
- (intransitive) To prepare for an activity by carrying out a practice or preparation routine.
- (intransitive) To become warmer.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Synonym of warm (to favor increasingly). [with to]
- (intransitive) To do gentle exercise, stretching etc., in order to prepare the body for more vigorous exercise.
- (transitive) To make (an audience) enthusiastic or animated before a show.
noun
adj
- Physically active.
- vigorously active
- Having a muscular, well developed body, being in shape.
- (video games) Of a level in a Super Mario game: with an emphasis on platforming challenge, often involving precise jumps between floating platforms above a bottomless pit, and having upbeat background music.
- (not comparable) Having to do with athletes.
- An attribute of a motion or play which requires fine physical ability.
- relating to or befitting athletics or athletes
- having a sturdy and well proportioned body
noun
adj
- Extremely muscled
- (slang) Of a person: having large, well-developed muscles; muscular.
- (usually followed by up) Upset; experiencing strong negative emotion.
- (chiefly African-American Vernacular, dialectal) Swollen, enlarged.
- Full (of something); bursting with.
- (slang) Of a person: erect; having an erection of the penis; sexually aroused, hard.
- Extremely proud or arrogant.