calisthenics

IPA: kæɫʌsθˈɛnɪks

(in the plural) Gymnastic exercises under the participation of a (surface-wise) multitude of muscles and often minimal equipment (thus, usually bodyweight exercises) with a stress on stamina.
(in the singular) A system of such exercises.

Examples of "calisthenics" in Sentences

He was so clumsy he couldn't even do the side-straddle-hop in calisthenics.
Body weight drills such as calisthenics and plyometrics keep your nervous system sharp.
I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core.
I am a big proponent on implementing training methods such as calisthenics, plyometrics, and various other body resisted movements.
As freshmen we hadn’t actually attended them, but the main feature of the night was called calisthenics, and it was some cheesy aerobics routine.
We come now to what I may call the calisthenics of the business, exercises which may be roughly compared to the technical exercises necessary in learning to play a musical instrument.
I heard Horton ask how many participants have his P90X program, and a good many hands went up among the hundred or so runners stretching and limbering up, doing what we used to call calisthenics before fitness became a multibillion-dollar industry
They were not allowed to learn dancing; they had no outdoor games at all, not even croquet -- nothing whatever to exhilarate them and develop them physically except an hour's "deportment," the very mildest kind of calisthenics, in the big class-room once a fortnight, and the daily making of their little beds.