physical exercise

Questions about physical exercise

What does physical exercise mean?

physical exercise means "the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit".

What is another word for physical exercise?

Close synonyms include exercise, exercising, physical exertion, workout. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is physical exercise a common word?

physical exercise 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.