- setting-up exercise
- noun Date: circa 1900 any of a series of gymnastic exercises used to give an erect carriage, supple muscles, and easy control of the limbs
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setting-up exercise
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Setting-up exercise — Set ting up ex er*cise Any one of a series of gymnastic exercises used, as in drilling recruits, for the purpose of giving an erect carriage, supple muscles, and an easy control of the limbs. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
setting-up exercise — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ noun : any of a series of gymnastic exercises used to give an erect carriage, supple muscles, and easy control of the limbs … Useful english dictionary
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