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aerobics

plural noun
aer·​o·​bics | \ ˌer-ˈƍ-biks How to pronounce aerobics (audio) \

Definition of aerobics

1  singular or plural in construction : a system of physical conditioning involving exercises (such as running, walking, swimming, or calisthenics) strenuously performed so as to cause marked temporary increase in respiration and heart rate
2 : aerobic exercises

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This is a system of physical conditioning intended to improve the body’s ability to take in and use oxygen. Aerobic exercises, such as running, jogging, swimming, and dancing, stimulate heart and lung activity. To produce a benefit, aerobic training must raise the heart rate (pulse) to the exerciser’s training level for at least 20 minutes and include at least three sessions a week.

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But even here her ingenuity is thwarted, when FAM shuts down her efforts to recruit her downliners to her jubilant water-aerobics classes at the park. Author: Hank Stuever, Anchorage Daily News, "Review: We’re buying what Kirsten Dunst is selling in ‘On Becoming a God in Central Florida’," 22 Aug. 2019 Water Aerobics: Outdoor water aerobics at Veterans Memorial Park pool on Pleasant Valley Drive with Dee on Mondays and Wednesdays, 10 to 11 a.m. Began Monday, 6/24, and running through Wednesday, 8/7. courant.com, "Community News For The South Windsor Edition," 25 July 2019 High-End Merch Collaborations Boutique fitness classes have offered other brand's merch since at least the Jazzercise and dance aerobics craze of the 1970s and 1980s. Kate Dwyer, Fortune, "Sweat Marketing: Lululemon’s Tie-In With Barry’s Bootcamp," 25 July 2019 In addition, our water aerobics class has been growing. Jan Burns, Houston Chronicle, "Focus on ways to avoid falls," 19 July 2019 Turns out those three descriptors also apply to an aerobics instructor innocently on his way to class, and the boys are foiled again. Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, "R29 Binge Club: Stranger Things Season 3," 5 July 2019 Fonda founded her own dance-aerobics program in 1979 to fund the leftist Campaign for Economic Democracy; her bestselling book connected exercise to causes such as environmentalism and overcoming oppressive beauty standards. Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, The Atlantic, "The World That Jazzercise Built," 16 June 2019 Water Aerobics: Outdoor water aerobics at Veterans Memorial Park pool on Pleasant Valley Drive with Dee on Mondays and Wednesdays, 10 to 11 a.m. beginning Monday, 6/24, through Wednesday, 8/7. courant.com, "Community News For The South Windsor Edition," 13 June 2019 Recreational swimming is available at different times every day of the week, in addition to activities like toddler time and deep and shallow water aerobics. Jessica Yadegaran, The Mercury News, "7 sensational Bay Area pools to escape the heat," 10 June 2019

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First Known Use of aerobics

1967, in the meaning defined at sense 1

History and Etymology for aerobics

aerob(ic) + -ics

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aerobics

noun

English Language Learners Definition of aerobics

: a system of exercises often done by a group of people while music is playing : a system of aerobic exercises also : aerobic exercises

aerobics

noun plural
aer·​o·​bics | \ -biks How to pronounce aerobics (audio) \

Medical Definition of aerobics

1  singular or plural in construction : a system of physical conditioning involving exercises (as running, walking, swimming, or calisthenics) strenuously performed so as to cause marked temporary increase in respiration and heart rate
2 : aerobic exercises

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