Synonyms of the word

exercise

• n. Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
• n. Physical activity intended to improve strength and fitness.
• n. A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
• n. The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
• n. (obsolete) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
• v. To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
• v. (intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.
• v. (transitive) To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
• v. (now often in passive) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful…
• v. (obsolete) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.

activity

• n. The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active…
• n. Something done as an action or a movement.
• n. Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
• n. Use (of internet, Playstation, bank account etc.).

apply

• v. (transitive) To lay or place; to put (one thing to another).
• v. (transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate;…
• v. (transitive) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the…
• v. (transitive) To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.
• v. (transitive) To betake; to address; to refer; generally used reflexively.
• v. (intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of…
• v. (intransitive) To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.
• v. (obsolete) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
• v. (obsolete) To visit.
• adj. Alternative spelling of appley.

ceremonial

• adj. Of, relating to, or used in a ceremony; ritual or formal.
• adj. (archaic) Observant of forms; ceremonious.
• n. A ceremony, or series of ceremonies, prescribed by ritual.

ceremony

• n. A ritual with religious significance.
• n. An official gathering to celebrate, commemorate, or otherwise mark some event.
• n. A formal socially established behaviour, often in relation to people of different ranks.
• n. (obsolete) An omen or portent.

do

• v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
• v. (transitive) To perform; to execute.
• v. (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
• v. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
• v. (transitive) To have (as an effect).
• v. (intransitive) To fare; to succeed or fail.
• v. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
• v. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
• v. To cook.
• v. (transitive) To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
• v. (transitive) To treat in a certain way.
• v. (transitive) To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order,…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
• v. (transitive) (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
• v. (transitive) To impersonate or depict.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
• v. (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
• v. (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
• v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it).
• v. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
• v. (transitive) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
• v. (Britain, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
• v. (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
• v. (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
• v. (informal, transitive) To make or provide.
• v. (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
• v. (transitive) To take drugs.
• v. (idomatic, transitive, in the form be doing [somewhere]) to have a purpose or reason.
• n. (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
• n. (informal) A hairdo.
• n. (colloquial, obsolete) A period of confusion or argument.
• n. Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
• n. (obsolete) A deed; an act.
• n. (archaic) ado; bustle; stir; to-do.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
• n. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
• adv. (rare) Abbreviation of ditto.

drill

• v. (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
• v. (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
• v. (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
• v. (transitive) To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
• v. (intransitive) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level.
• v. (transitive) To hit or kick with a lot of power.
• v. (baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
• v. (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
• v. (transitive) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
• v. (transitive) To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To entice or allure; to decoy; with on.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
• n. A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into…
• n. The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
• n. An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds…
• n. A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
• n. A row of seed sown in a furrow.
• n. An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation…
• n. (obsolete) A small trickling stream; a rill.
• n. Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that…
• n. An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but…
• n. A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.

effort

• n. The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
• n. An endeavour.
• n. A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.
• v. (uncommon, intransitive) To make an effort.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To stimulate.

employ

• n. The state of being an employee; employment.
• v. To hire (somebody for work or a job).
• v. To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task).
• v. To make busy.

employment

• n. A use, purpose.
• n. The act of employing.
• n. The state of being employed.
• n. The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid.
• n. An activity to which one devotes time.
• n. (economics) The number or percentage of people at work.

example

• n. Something that is representative of all such things in a group.
• n. Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule.
• n. Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated…
• n. A person punished as a warning to others.
• n. A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model.
• n. An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise…
• v. To be illustrated or exemplified (by).

exercising

• v. present participle of exercise.
• n. The act by which something is exercised.

exert

• v. To put in vigorous action.
• v. To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material.

exertion

• n. An expenditure of physical or mental effort.

grooming

• v. present participle of groom.
• n. Care for one's personal appearance, hygiene, and clothing.
• n. The act of teaching someone, often for advancement at work.
• n. Caring for horses or other animals by brushing and cleaning them.
• n. The act of attempting to gain the trust of a minor with the intention of having a sexual relationship…

learn

• v. To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
• v. To attend a course or other educational activity.
• v. To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
• v. To be studying.
• v. To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
• v. (now only in slang and dialects) To teach.

lesson

• n. A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
• n. A learning task assigned to a student; homework.
• n. Something learned or to be learned.
• n. Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.
• n. A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.
• n. A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
• n. (music) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
• v. To give a lesson to; to teach.

observance

• n. The practice of complying with a law, custom, command or rule.
• n. The custom of celebrating a holiday or similar occasion.
• n. Observation or the act of watching.
• n. (religion) A rule governing a religious order, especially in the Roman Catholic church.

practice

• n. Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.
• n. An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition.
• n. (uncountable) The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
• n. (countable) A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice.
• n. The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members.
• n. A customary action, habit, or behaviour; a manner or routine.
• n. Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.
• n. (law) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various…
• n. Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.
• n. (mathematics) A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in…
• v. US spelling of practise.

practise

• v. (transitive) To repeat (an acitivity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
• v. (intransitive) To repeat an activity in this way.
• v. (transitive) To perform or observe in a habitual fashion.
• v. (transitive) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To conspire.
• v. To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
• v. To make use of; to employ.
• v. To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
• n. Misspelling of practice.

preparation

• n. (uncountable) The act of preparing or getting ready.
• n. That which is prepared.
• n. (countable) A substance, especially a remedy, that is prepared.
• n. (music) Any of the objects placed between the strings of a prepared piano.

read

• v. (obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed…
• v. (transitive) To interpret or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc.
• v. To consist of certain text.
• v. (intransitive) Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
• v. (transitive) To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce…
• v. (informal, usually ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
• v. (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
• v. (transitive, Britain) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
• v. (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
• v. (obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.
• v. (obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.
• v. (transitive, transgender) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
• v. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either…
• n. A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.
• n. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's…
• n. (in combination) That which is to be read.

recitation

• n. The act of publicly reciting something previously memorized.
• n. The material recited.
• n. A regularly scheduled class, in a school, in which discussion occurs of the material covered in a parallel…

study

• v. (usually academic) To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them,…
• v. (academic) To take a course or courses on a subject.
• v. To acquire knowledge on a subject.
• v. To look at minutely.
• v. To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.
• v. To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.
• n. (obsolete) A state of mental perplexity or worried thought.
• n. (archaic) Thought, as directed to a specific purpose; one's concern.
• n. Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.
• n. The act of studying or examining; examination.
• n. Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
• n. A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of…
• n. An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique.
• n. (music) A piece for special practice; an étude.

sweat

• n. Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature…
• n. (Britain, slang, military slang, especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
• n. (historical) The sweating sickness.
• n. Moisture issuing from any substance.
• n. A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
• v. (intransitive) To emit sweat.
• v. (transitive) To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To work hard.
• v. (transitive, informal) To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To worry.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To worry about (something).
• v. (transitive) To emit, in the manner of sweat.
• v. (intransitive) To emit moisture.
• v. (intransitive, plumbing) To solder (a pipe joint) together.
• v. (transitive, slang) To stress out.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To cook slowly in shallow oil without browning.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To remove a portion of (a coin), as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that…

take

• v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
• v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove.
• v. (transitive) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
• v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
• v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
• v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
• v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
• v. (transitive) To consume.
• v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
• v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
• v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
• v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
• v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
• v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
• v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
• v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
• v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
• v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
• v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
• v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
• v. (transitive) To require.
• v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
• v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
• v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
• v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
• v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
• v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
• v. (transitive) To move into.
• v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
• v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
• v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
• v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
• v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
• v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
• v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
• v. (transitive) To deal with.
• v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
• v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
• v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
• v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
• v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
• v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
• v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
• n. The or an act of taking.
• n. Something that is taken; a haul.
• n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
• n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
• n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
• n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
• n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
• n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
• n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
• n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

training

• v. present participle of train.
• n. Action of the verb to train.
• n. The activity of imparting and acquiring skills.
• n. The result of good social upbringing.
• n. (computing) The process by which two modems determine which protocol and speed to use; handshaking.
• n. (voice recognition) The recording of multiple samples of a user's voice to aid pattern recognition.

travail

• n. (archaic) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
• n. Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
• n. (obsolete, countable) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).
• n. (obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object.
• n. Obsolete form of travel.
• n. Alternative form of travois (“a kind of sled”).
• v. To toil.
• v. To go through the labor of childbirth.

usage

• n. The manner or the amount of using; use.
• n. Habit or accepted practice.
• n. (lexicography) The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's…
• n. (obsolete) The treatment of someone or something.

use

• n. The act of using.
• n. (uncountable, followed by "of") Usefulness, benefit.
• n. A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
• n. Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
• n. (obsolete, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.
• n. (archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit.
• n. (obsolete) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
• n. (religion) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese.
• n. (forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward…
• v. To accustom; to habituate.
• v. (reflexive, obsolete) To become accustomed (to), to accustom oneself (to).
• v. (transitive) To employ; to apply; to utilize.
• v. (reflexive, obsolete) To behave, act, comport oneself.
• v. (transitive, often with up) To exhaust the supply of; to consume by employing.
• v. (transitive) To exploit.
• v. (dated) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.
• v. (intransitive, now rare, literary) To habitually do; to be wont to do.
• v. (intransitive, past tense with infinitive) To habitually do. See used to.
• v. (transitive, with auxiliary could) To need; to benefit from.
• v. (intransitive) To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted.

utilisation

• n. The act of using something.
• n. The manner in which something is used.
• n. The state of being used.

utilise

• v. To make useful, to find a practical use for.
• v. To make use of; to use.
• v. To make best use of; to use to its fullest extent, potential, or ability.
• v. To make do with; to use in manner different from that originally intended.

utilization

• n. (Canada, US, Oxford British English) Alternative spelling of utilisation.

utilize

• v. (US, Canada, Oxford British English) Alternative spelling of utilise.

work

• n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
• n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
• n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
• n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
• n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
• v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
• v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
• v. (transitive) To set into action.
• v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
• v. (intransitive) To ferment.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
• v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
• v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
• v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
• v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
• v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to work.
• v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
• v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
• v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
• v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

workout

• n. An exercise session; a period of physical exercise.
• n. A schedule or program of specific exercises, especially one intended to achieve a particular goal.
• n. (by extension) Any activity that requires much physical or mental effort, or produces strain.