physical education

1. 1.

   training in the development of and care for the human body; stresses athletics; includes hygiene

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Questions about physical education

What does physical education mean?

physical education means "training in the development of and care for the human body; stresses athletics; includes hygiene".

Is physical education a common word?

physical education is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.