The body
Synonyms for exercise
Synonyms for exercise: work, workout, exert and use. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 4 synonyms for exercise
Interchangeable with exercise, one per sense
Audited under exercise's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one exercise carries in that sense.
- workverb, in the sense "give a workout to"
- workoutnoun, in the sense "the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name exercise as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
Two directions, one standard: two audited under exercise and two under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
give a workout to
Some parents exercise their infants.
exercise in 2 more sentences, same sense
- Physical therapists exercise stroke patients' weak limbs every morning to rebuild strength and coordination.
- The stable hands exercise the racehorses along the beach before sunrise each day.
How it behaves: In this sense exercise typically takes a person or animal as its direct object and appears in caretaking or therapeutic contexts, as in exercise the patient.
The true synonym
work
Same sentence, swapped: Some parents work their infants.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot exercise is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- drill
- practise
- rack
The opposite, in this sense
rest reverses exercise as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of exercise takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- rest
the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit
The doctor recommended regular exercise.
The true synonym
workout
Same sentence, swapped: The doctor recommended regular workout.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- example
- employment
- struggle
Where exercise turns up in the game
exercise is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where exercise is the trap
- practicenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is pattern, in the sense "a customary way of operation or behavior", so exercise is there to be ruled out.
- drillverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is bore, in the sense "make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool", so exercise is there to be ruled out.
- grabverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is seize, in the sense "capture the attention or imagination of", and exercise is on the board beside it.
- troublenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is difficulty, in the sense "an effort that is inconvenient", with exercise sitting one tile away.
Play exercise
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so exercise reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other the body words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. exercise carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.