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Workout vs Exercising - What's the difference?

workout | exercising |

As nouns the difference between workout and exercising

is that workout is an exercise session; a period of physical exercise while exercising is the act by which something is exercised.

As a verb exercising is

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workout

English

(wikipedia workout)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An exercise session; a period of physical exercise.
  • * 2008 , Jim Montgomery, Mo Chambers, Mastering Swimming , page 157?
    • The following guidelines for smart weekly scheduling can simplify this piece of the planning: Swim three or four workouts each week.
  • A schedule or program of specific exercises, especially one intended to achieve a particular goal.
  • * 2007 , Peter Twist, Complete Conditioning for Hockey? , page 170
    • If athletes do too much too soon, they will be stiff and sore 24 to 48 hours after a new workout .
  • * 2010', Mark Alvisi (quote from a reader), "Mark of a Champion", ''Muscular Development?'' ' 47 (1): 350
    • I read in another magazine about a workout that can put a whole inch on your arms in just one day!
  • (by extension) Any activity that requires much physical or mental effort, or produces strain.
  • * 2001 , Jan Karon, A Common Life: The Wedding Story , page 41?
    • Cynthia's phone got a workout , as well. In approximately three days since the news had hit the street, a total of five bridal showers had been booked, not to mention a luncheon at Esther Cunningham's and tea at Olivia Harper's.

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    exercising

    English

    Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is exercised.
  • * 2007 , Sarah Wilson, Todd & Wilson's Textbook on Trusts (page 376)
    • Whilst this is a duty which cannot be excluded or restricted, and notwithstanding its general policy of promoting the spirit of portfolio in all exercisings of investment power