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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024