Setting-up exercise n. Any one of a series of gymnastic exercises used, as in drilling recruits, for the purpose of giving an erect carriage, supple muscles, and an easy control of the limbs.
... his arms as if stretching himself or going through a sort of setting-up exercise. Again and again he repeated the movements. A smile lighted ... — Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal - or Perils of the Black Bear Patrol • G. Harvey Ralphson
... unduly of the lamp," my guru remarked after the departure of the chastened one. "They prefer philosophy to be a gentle intellectual setting-up exercise. Their elevated thoughts are carefully unrelated either to the crudity of outward action or to ... — Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda
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