Calisthenics meaning

Noun: calisthenics

Pronunciation: (ka-lis’the-niks)

Calisthenics meaning:

•  Light exercises designed to promote general fitness, strength.
• The practice of calisthenic exercises which are systematic, rhythmic bodily exercises performed usually without apparatus.

I have a video illustrating several different calisthenics.

Wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

And after calisthenics, there was always a run of a mile or two, consisting of laps around the Academy.

The boxing club working out in the gym, maybe, doing calisthenics or the other stuff boxers did.

The players were doing calisthenics under a troubled- looking sky.

After calisthenics, we broke into groups to kick the ball around.

Then it was back outside, where the guards made the men run circles or perform calisthenics, often until they collapsed.

During forced exercise, he wasn’t strong enough to run, so he and a few others were separated and harangued through calisthenics.

In her childhood she had been obliged to rise at seven, and practice calisthenics for an hour before breakfast.