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Definition of exercise : 1. Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to take exercise on horseback.
2. Exertion for the sake of training or improvement whether physical, intellectual, or moral; practice to acquire skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness, grace, etc.
3. That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
4. That which is done for the sake of exercising, practicing, training, or promoting skill, health, mental, improvement, moral discipline, etc.; that which is assigned or prescribed for such ends; hence, a disquisition; a lesson; a task; as, military or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition.
5. The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in general; practice.
6. The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill.
7. The performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty.
8. To exercise one's self, as under military training; to drill; to take exercise; to use action or exertion; to practice gymnastics; as, to exercise for health or amusement.
9. To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop; hence, also, to improve by practice; to discipline, and to use or to for the purpose of training; as, to exercise arms; to exercise one's self in music; to exercise troops.
10. 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; to affect; to discipline; as, exercised with pain.
11. To put in practice; to carry out in action; to perform the duties of; to use; to employ; to practice; as, to exercise authority; to exercise an office.
12. To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to; to put in action habitually or constantly; to school or train; to exert repeatedly; to busy.

Synonyms:

object lesson, handler, inspection, rehearse, process, wreak, feat, good example, arrange, walking, weigh on, Kitty litter, bore, exemplar, coiffe, jog, concern, occupation, physical exercise, training, study, set, worry, arrangements, physical exertion, cultivate, elaborate, calculate, class period, enjoyment, usance, play, bend, boot camp, make for, doing, make, workout, figure out, call off, influence, cat litter, utilisation, instance, work up, practise, commit, act upon, puzzle out, domesticate, task, wear, bother, aerobic, role, make out, put to work, mould, go toward, double time, form, test, custom, sour, purpose, answer to, aquarobics, manipulation, blueprint, rehearsal, circuit training, tactic, cipher, halt, alarm, forge, theme, transaction, economic consumption, plan, gymnastics, consumption, drill, coif, deterrent example, bring in, lesson, aerobics, planning, agreement, go, lick, plot, come, achievement, frighten, Annapolis, tear apart, used, figure, kennel, loosen up, praxis, work out, maintain, limber up, acquisition, exercising, firm up, bodybuilding, solve, inspect, flashcard, use of goods and services, preparation, illustration, assimilation, habit, case, boxercise, compute, proceeding, heel, turn, discovery, routine, implementation, representative, consume, the burn, bring, exploitation, disturb, shape, answer, get along, suffice, engagement, adoption, exploit, manage, education, unsettle, example, fare, do work, conditioning, reckon, sculpt, consummation, dress, work on, constitutional, course session, conspiracy, fall back on, model, warm up, reading, advanced, crop, insight, mold, hothouse, practice session, pattern, cause, distress, attention, run, hold, litter, recital, execution, burn off, ferment, exploratory, knead, cypher, accomplishment, recitation, running, chin-up, strategy, draw on, calisthenics, coiffure

employ, exert, effect, apply, implement, utilize, serve

business, energy, animation, agility, kinetics, stirring, liveliness

expend, discharge, wield

onerousness, exertion, toil, strenuousness

deed, movement, action, practice, motion, behavior, activity, performance, effort, operation

service, usage, employment, application, use, utilization, utility

endeavor, labor, appear, perform, perpetrate, move, do, function, transact, behave, enterprise, officiate, react, conduct, operate, work, comport, act, execute

Usage examples:

• Such a one was Sir Thomas Tringle, and a time for such exercise had seemed to him to have come now. - "Ayala's Angel", Anthony Trollope.
• " If I had a little exercise, I should be warm," he replied. - "The Children's Book of Christmas Stories", Various.
• To begin: " Dancing is such good exercise!" - "Tired Church Members", Anna Warner.