Synonyms:
calisthenics, callisthenics
Meaning: light exercises designed to promote general fitness; "several different calisthenics were illustrated in the video"
Synonyms:
calisthenics, callisthenics
Meaning: the practice of calisthenic exercises; "calisthenics is recommended for general good health"
Usage examples
Again he had been the victim of delusion and had wasted heroic emotions on a stuffed dummy that served merely as an inanimate instrument in a course of anti-fat calisthenics.
"Well, even granting that, I don't think health has anything to do with goodness; of course, it's valuable to a great saint to be able to stand enormous strains, but this fad of popular preachers rising on their toes in simulated virility, bellowing that calisthenics will save the world--no, Burne, I can't go that."