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deskercise

deskercise noun: desk exercise; the performance of exercises at a desk as a means of promoting health and fitness.

Noun

deskercise (countable and uncountable, plural deskercises)

  1. Desk exercise; the performance of exercises at a desk as a means of promoting health and fitness.
    • If one part consists of a whole word such as oildraulic or deskercise, the parse is fairly easy, and the next task is to identify the source of the splinter (-draulic < hydraulic, and -ercise < exercise).2007, Judith Munat, Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts, page 117
    • 2002 McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine.
      deskercise Exercises performed while seated at the workplace

Forms of deskercise

pluraldeskercises

Origin of deskercise

Blend of desk + exercise.

Words formed from deskercise

Questions about deskercise

What does deskercise mean?
Deskercise means desk exercise; the performance of exercises at a desk as a means of promoting health and fitness.
What part of speech is deskercise?
Deskercise is a noun.
What is the plural of deskercise?
The plural of deskercise is deskercises.

Words near deskercise in the dictionary

  1. deskbars
  2. deskbook
  3. deskbooks
  4. deskbound
  5. desked
  6. deskercise
  7. deskercises
  8. deskew
  9. deskewed
  10. deskewing
  11. deskews

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deskercise (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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