warm-up exercise

collocation in English

meaningsofwarm-upandexercise

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warm-up
noun[C]
uk
/ˈwɔːm.ʌp/
us
/ˈwɔːrm.ʌp/
something that you do to prepare yourself for an activity, especially gentle exercises before a ...
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exercise
noun
uk
/ˈek.sə.saɪz/
us
/ˈek.sɚ.saɪz/
physical activity that you do to make your body strong ...
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(Definition ofwarm-upandexercisefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This may be left as awarm-upexercisefor the reader.
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After thiswarm-upexercise, the real experiment began.
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Gesture drawing is awarm-upexercisefor many artists, although some artists sketch out the gesture as the first step in every figure drawing.
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Traversing a climbing wall is a goodwarm-upexercise.
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The party then marches on to the first hunt for small fowl in the snow-covered country, awarm-upexerciseonly intended to secure appetizers for dinner.
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Individual older people performed the warm-up exercises with attention to the constraints of their own bodies.
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He was at this time developing the actor's toilette and his initial idea was that his system would be simply the actor's daily warm-up exercises.
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Volunteers, who have been trained to provide appropriate warm-up exercises before the walk and stretches after the walk, lead each walk.
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The skate sessions have 10 minutes of warm-up exercises, 30 minutes of instruction and 10 minutes of free skating.
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With the first warm-up exercises, the girls get familiar with how to adjust and balance the wireless transceivers.
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Practicing begins with basic warm-up exercises, gradually moving on to special exercises.
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He did basic warm-up exercises to piano keys with his vocal coach who also gave him a cassette tape of the piano warm-up for future use.
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