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.

Noun

(en noun)

Mode of rule or management.

A form of government, or the government in power (as in a socialist regime).

A period of rule.

A regulated system; a regimen.

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(hydrology) A set of characteristics.