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What does exercise mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word exercise? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
  2. Physical activity intended to improve strength and fitness.
  3. A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
  4. The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
  5. (obsolete) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
Verb
  1. To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
  2. (intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.
  3. (transitive) To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
  4. (now often in passive) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.
  5. (obsolete) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.
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