amerikai:
brit:
1. Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
The teacher told us that the next exercise is to write an essay.
2. Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.
I do crosswords for mental exercise.
3. A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
The law guarantees us the free exercise of our rights.
4. The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
I assisted the ailing vicar in the exercise of his parish duties.
5. That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
1. To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
to exercise troops or horses; to exercise one's brain with a puzzle
2. To perform physical activity for health or training.
I exercise at the gym every day.
3. To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
She is going to exercise her right to vote.
4. (now often in passive) 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.
exercised with pain
5. To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.