Exercise

Exercise ( lat. Exercitium 'exercise') means:

• spiritual, mental exercise, often in a religious context; see retreat
• outdated expression for school exercise or housework; see homework
• outdated expression for exercise in general, later especially in the military; see Exercise
• Appropriate exercises for the aristocracy consisting of riding, fencing and dancing. This found its continuation at the universities , where there were fencing, riding and dancing masters for this purpose.
• When rubbing a salamander (ritual) , the command ad exercitium salamandri occurs as part of the ritual .

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.