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Get/take/do exercise? #1 (permalink) Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:15 am   Get/take/do exercise?
 

The difference btw "get exercise", "take exercise" and "do exercise"?

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Get/take/do exercise? #2 (permalink) Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:54 am   Get/take/do exercise?
 

The difference btw "get exercise", "take exercise" and "do exercise" in these sentences? Same meaning?

Ex: I don't get much exercise sitting in the office all day.
I don't do much exercise sitting in the office all day.
I don't take much exercise sitting in the office all day.

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Get/take/do exercise? #3 (permalink) Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:57 am   Get/take/do exercise?
 

To do exercises is more common for me Very Happy
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Exercise #4 (permalink) Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:12 am   Exercise
 

Hi Van Khanh,

Quote:
I don't get much exercise sitting in the office all day.
I don't do much exercise sitting in the office all day.
I don't take much exercise sitting in the office all day.

If you don't do or don't take take much exercise, it means that you don't actually perform an activity such as running,walking,playing tennis or whatever.

Get exercise is quite different. This means receive some kind of exercise as a result of an activity. Sitting at a desk you would obviously not receive or benefit from any exercise at all.

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Get/take/do exercise? #5 (permalink) Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:17 am   Get/take/do exercise?
 

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And get much exercise is the most common for me. Laughing

With the word do I'd be more likely to use the gerund: do much exercising

I would never say "take exercise". Shocked

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Get/take/do exercise? #6 (permalink) Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:32 am   Get/take/do exercise?
 

Hi

As I also heard 'to do exercises', could your add some comments about (possible) using the plural form - with the above verbs?
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Get/take/do exercise? #7 (permalink) Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:51 am   Get/take/do exercise?
 

Hi Tamara

Using the plural exercises would be more likely to have a connection to something not related to sports (or activities similar to sports).

The teacher made us do endless exercises (to practice the th sound, for example).

On the other hand, practicing th might also be seen more as a sport by some.... Laughing Rolling Eyes

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Exercise #8 (permalink) Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:23 am   Exercise
 

Hi Tamara,

Further exercising my brain I'd like to add another example. Taking exercise is often used in the sense of doing some kind of physical activity as in: Taking exercise daily can keep your heart healthy. I wonder if cutting the grass counts!

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Exercises :) #9 (permalink) Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:26 am   Exercises :)
 

…So (if I understood it right), when I read or hear 'exercises' (and not taking exercise), I should first think of mental activity.
Not of painstaking drilling muscles in a fitness center, but rather of some systematic attempts to learn or to remember something. For example Smile
Or of some other very special and spititual rituals. Like cutting the grass. Smile

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