| 单词 | feats of activity |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfeats of activity b. Physical exercise, gymnastics, athletics; (also) a gymnastic exercise. Now only in feats of activity. 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 1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca at Hippias He ran, wrastelyd, and dyd other feates of actiuitie, that all men beholdyng hym, were therwith abashed. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Master whyche teacheth actiuitie, Gymnastes. c1595 J. Norden Speculum Brit.: Cornwall (1728) 29 Especially Wrastling and Hurling, sharpe and seuere actiuities. ?a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) iv. sig. Gv He means Tumbling, and feats of Activity. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 51. ⁋3 A great deal of good Company of us were this Day to see or rather to hear an artful Person do several Feats of Activity. 1796 Tribune 3 286 They had their Gymnasia..where their youth were trained to strength, to activity, to wisdom and to virtue. 1845 Dublin Univ. Mag. Apr. 440/2 Harlequin resumed his occupation; now throwing out a drollery, now exhibiting a feat of activity. 1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right I. iii. 17 Certain poles and sticks and parallel bars with which feats of activity might be practised. 1915 O. G. Sonneck Early Opera in Amer. ii. ii. 136 Mr. and Mrs. Placide again saw their way clear to fill the gaps between their feats of activity with pantomines [sic], comedies and operas. 2001 P. Fletcher World Musics in Context (2004) xvi. 564 The gathering of logs into great piles afforded opportunity for mutual competition in feats of activity, strength, and the telling of jokes. < as lemmas |
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