setting-up exercises

setting-up exercises
/set"ing up"/
any of various exercises, as deep knee bends and push-ups, for improving one's posture, muscle tone, or limberness, or for reducing one's weight. Also called set-ups.
[1895-1900]

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  • setting-up exercises — /set ing up / any of various exercises, as deep knee bends and push ups, for improving one s posture, muscle tone, or limberness, or for reducing one s weight. Also called set ups. [1895 1900] …   Useful english dictionary

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  • setting-up — {adj.} Done early in the morning to make you fresh and feel strong for the day. * /Tom jumped out of bed and did his setting up exercises./ Compare: DAILY DOZEN …   Dictionary of American idioms

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  • setting-up — adj Done early in the morning to make you fresh and feel strong for the day. Tom jumped out of bed and did his setting up exercises. Compare: daily dozen …   Словарь американских идиом

  • 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 — 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 …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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