Usually means: Physical activity to improve health.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. exercise: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. exercise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exercise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exercise: Collins English Dictionary
  5. exercise: Vocabulary.com
  6. Exercise, exercise: Wordnik
  7. exercise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. exercise: Wiktionary
  9. exercise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. exercise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. exercise: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. exercise: Dictionary.com
  13. exercise (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. exercise: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Exercise (disambiguation), Exercise (mathematics), Exercise (options), Exercise, The Exercise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Exercise: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. exercise: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. exercise: Rhymezone
  19. exercise: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. exercise: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. exercise: Free Dictionary
  22. exercise: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. exercise: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. exercise: Mnemonic Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. exercise: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. EXERCISE: Accounting Glossary
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  6. Exercise: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
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  14. exercise: Legal dictionary
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  17. Exercise: WashingtonPost.com: Business
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exercise: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
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  4. exercise: Medical dictionary
  5. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  6. Exercise: Merck Manuals

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. exercise: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exercise: MATH SPOKEN HERE!

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Exercise: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
noun:  (countable, uncountable) Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.
noun:  A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
noun:  The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
noun:  (obsolete) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
verb:  To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
verb:  (intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.
verb:  (transitive) To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (obsolete) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.

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