English-Spanish translations for exercise

• ejercicio
  Opino que es un buen ejercicio. I think it is a good exercise.
  Estoy a favor de los ejercicios de "denuncia nominal". I am in favour of 'naming and shaming exercises'.
  El ejercicio va a acabar pronto. The exercise will soon be over.
• deporte
  El deporte tiene una gran importancia a nivel educativo y de salud. Exercise is educationally important and vital for health.
  La educación sobre la salud, el deporte como una práctica diaria; el deporte popular están en decadencia. Fitness training and sport as a daily exercise and popular sport are in dire straits.
  El ejercicio y el deporte promueven la vitalidad, tanto en encuentros individuales como por equipos. Exercise and sport promote vitality, in both individual and team events.
• ejercer
  Queremos ejercer nuestro derecho. We want to exercise our right.
  Los patrocinadores pueden ejercer presión sobre los clubes. Sponsors can exercise pressure on clubs.
  Todo lo que hizo fue ejercer sus derechos humanos. All he did was exercise his human rights.
• ejercitar
  Deberíamos intentar ejercitar esos poderes de una forma aún más democráticamente controlable. We should be trying to exercise those powers in a way that is even more democratically accountable.
  Las víctimas de esto aún siguen buscando, en vano, justicia y la oportunidad de ejercitar sus derechos. The victims of this are still looking, in vain, for justice and the opportunity to exercise their rights.
  La Unión Europea tiene que resolverlos y es su deber ayudar a los ciudadanos a luchar por ejercitar sus derechos. The European Union must deal with them and it is its duty to help citizens fighting to exercise their rights.
• hacer ejercicio
  Hacer ejercicio de forma regular no significa que tengamos que estar haciendo ejercicio cada cinco minutos. Regular exercise does not mean that we have to take exercise in every free minute.
  Para aquellos que necesiten hacer ejercicio, 2 Gs suponen un gran esfuerzo. For anyone in need of exercise, 2 Gs is plenty of exertion.
  Hacer ejercicio puede implicar simplemente caminar durante al menos media hora al día. Physical exercise can simply involve walking for at least half an hour a day.

Definition of exercise

• Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability
• Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness
• A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use
• The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty
• That which gives practice; a trial; a test
• To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop
• To perform physical activity for health or training
• To use ; to put into practice
• 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 set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to

Examples

• The teacher told us that the next exercise is to write an essay
• Swimming is good exercise.
• I like to do my exercises every morning before breakfast.
• I do crosswords for mental exercise.
• The law guarantees us the free exercise of our rights.
• I assisted the ailing vicar in the exercise of his parish duties.
• to exercise troops or horses; to exercise ones brain with a puzzle
• I exercise at the gym every day
• The tenant exercised its option to renew the tenancy
• She is going to exercise her right to vote
• exercised with pain

Related words

• exercises
• unexercised
• exercise bicycle
• exercise ball
• exercise book
• exercise machine
• exercise bike
• exercise of a discretionary power
• exercise equipment