ekkern.
/ˈɛkə/ University slang or School slang.
= exercise n. 7.
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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
1891 S. J. Duncan Amer. Girl in London xxiii. 254 Walking for what in the vulgar tongue might be called exercise, but here [i.e. in Oxford] was ‘ekker’.
1901 Winchester Coll. Notions 40 Most houses have Ekker Rolls, the amount of compulsory exercise varying from four to six hours a week.
1970 Wykehamist 21 Mar. 447/1 Whatever the supposed range of activities that qualify as ekker, the demands of the major games..usually over-ride all others.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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