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n. - Light exercises designed to promote general fitness; The practice of calisthenic exercises.

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  • A decent callisthenics program should see the levels equalize over the next week or so.
  • A subforcer rousted us out before dawn, into the near-freezing cold, and put us through callisthenics.
  • They're not the equivalent of creative callisthenics, the sort that might be used in writing classes because they aren't presented as such.
  • To Montaigne it was intellectual callisthenics, the "fruitful and natural exercise of the mind" as opposed to the "languid, feeble motion" of reading.
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