| 单词 | daily dozen |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdaily dozen daily dozen n. (also with capital initials) (originally) (the name of) a set of physical exercises designed to be performed each day on rising; (later more generally) any exercise or group of exercises performed on a daily basis.The name ‘Daily Dozen’ was originally given to a set of twelve exercises devised by American sportsman Walter Camp (1859–1925) for naval recruits during the First World War (1914–18). At the end of the war Camp published his system in several periodicals, on gramophone record, and in a book (see W. Camp Daily Dozen (1921)), and it became widely popular. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [noun] playeOE stirringa1400 laboura1530 exercisea1533 activity1542 motion1568 gymnastic1598 gymnastics1652 capriccio1665 grind1857 physical drill1873 ekker1891 physical jerks1917 daily dozen1918 workout1923 sexercise1942 1918 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 28 Apr. (Mag.) 3 (heading) Camp's ‘Daily Dozen Set-up’ posed by popular actress to prove how everyman and everywoman can become fitter. 1919 Red Cross Mag. Dec. 30/3 It was while engaged in this work that he evolved what he [sc. Walter Camp] calls his ‘short-hand system’ of setting-up exercises, or ‘the daily dozen’. 1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas iv. 43 Ann is one of those girls who always look as if they had just stepped out of a cold bath after doing their daily dozen. 1965 W. Lamb Posture & Gesture ix. 121 Physical exercises, whether performed privately as a daily dozen, or in a class to the accompaniment of music, may be a pleasant and stimulating way of passing the time. 1998 Mirror (Nexis) 5 Dec. 32 Tai Chi, the balletic exercises many Chinese perform as the equivalent of the westerner's ‘daily dozen’. < as lemmas |
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