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Sports and Exercise Sciences

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Sports and Exercise Sciences at Lancaster University

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: physical education, tourism, services
University website: www.lancs.ac.uk

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Exercise
Exercise is any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health and wellness. It is performed for various reasons, including increasing growth and development, preventing aging, strengthening muscles and the cardiovascular system, honing athletic skills, weight loss or maintenance, and also for enjoyment. Many individuals choose to exercise publicly outdoors where they can congregate in groups, socialize, and enhance well-being.
Exercise
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.
Leslie Stephen, Studies of a Biographer: Second Series (London: Duckworth, 1902) vol. 3, p. 261.
Exercise
I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is done in private by consenting adults.
Anna Quindlen, Living Out Loud, p. 65, Fawcett Columbine (1988).
Exercise
If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life.
Henry David Thoreau, “Walking” (1862), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 5, p. 209, Houghton Mifflin (1906).
Scientists are studying how toxic chemicals are naturally degraded in polluted waters with a view to developing cost-effective methods for cleaning up contaminated sites.
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