How to Use calisthenics in a Sentence

calisthenics

noun
  • Strength training via body weight means performing calisthenics such as sit-ups, lunges, squats, push-ups, pull-ups planks and step-ups.
    Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN, 19 Aug. 2021
  • If so, they might be forced to stand up to eat during meals, perform public calisthenics or run an extra lap in the morning.
    Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Those who don't know it will have to participate in some silly calisthenics ... for all to see, as it's broadcast on TVs to the bar inside.
    Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2021
  • And how about a bodysuit for doing calisthenics with those Dior dumbbells?
    Blue Carreon, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • First up, some light calisthenics: the Baja rhythm section.
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 4 June 2020
  • Before, instructors would order the recruits to run one day and concentrate on strength the next with a series of calisthenics.
    Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 14 May 2021
  • Corny music plays over homoerotic b-roll of sinewy athletes hurtling spears and columns of young men in short shorts doing calisthenics.
    Ian Allen, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2022
  • There are tons of benefits of calisthenics workouts, too.
    Jenny McCoy, SELF, 21 May 2022
  • The rover will also extend its five-jointed, 2-meter-long robotic arm, which carries the rover’s coring drill and several more cameras, and put it through some calisthenics.
    Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Standard and Poor’s downgraded the credit worthiness of the U.S. after the 2011 debt ceiling calisthenics.
    Fox News, 15 Sep. 2021
  • With the help of soccer influencers Brandon and Esteban, William begins his day as Ronaldo would: with a 5 a.m. calisthenics workout.
    Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 15 May 2022
  • During the shutdown, Ray did calisthenics alone outside.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 12 Nov. 2021
  • As Bikila did calisthenics in the infield, Tsuburaya headed to the finish line looking exhausted and pained.
    New York Times, 18 July 2021
  • Ling’s methods – emphasizing group classes, comfortable clothes, calisthenics, and dance – caught on and spread wide.
    Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The company hosts weekly farm-to-table barbecues and an annual field day for staff to get outside and romp with kickball, dodgeball, ultimate Frisbee, and calisthenics.
    Nick Davidson, Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2014
  • Yoga can refer to a philosophical tradition or to an hourlong class of slow calisthenics with a devotional gloss.
    New York Times, 25 Nov. 2020
  • With her parents’ bemused tolerance, Bechdel took up skiing, jumping rope, calisthenics, and running.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
  • Later rabbis prescribed spiritual calisthenics to keep these prayer thieves at bay.
    Allan Ripp, WSJ, 20 May 2021
  • As Han Hong-koo, a minjung veteran and popular historian of modern Korea, told me in Seoul two years ago, reading in those days felt like a matter of life and death—and ideological calisthenics.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2020
  • At home, Moses maintains his level of fitness mostly by doing calisthenics and stretching exercises.
    Karen Rosen, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Even so, the songs -- featuring the composer's trademark mix of musical styles and playful lyrical calisthenics -- prove catchy and touching, particularly in Andres' words about sharing Marta, who was destined for bigger things, with the world.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 5 Aug. 2021
  • This popular albeit difficult-to-master calisthenics staple isn't bad per se, but Cavaliere has an issue with the transition between different stages of the exercise.
    Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Types of training include weightlifting, resistance band exercises, calisthenics (bodyweight exercises), weight sled work, hill sprints, plyometrics, and more.
    Outside Online, 22 June 2020

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