fitness

«fitness» in Mova's school dictionary: being healthy and strong in your body, especially from… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (fitness; usually no plural)

meaning for a pupil

1) Fitness is being healthy and strong in your body, especially from exercise. tree →

2) How good or suitable someone or something is for a task: «fitness for the job». tree →

3) (science) In biology, how well a living thing survives and has young in its environment. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in PE, sport and health: «fitness test», «fitness club», «physical fitness», «fitness tracker». It tells the reader about health and exercise.

examples

• We did a fitness test in PE today. tree →
• Swimming is great for fitness. tree →
• Dad joined a fitness class on Saturdays. tree →
• Her fitness improved after a month of running. tree →
• My fitness tracker counts my steps. tree →
• The coach checked the players' fitness before the match. tree →

note

Uncountable: «fitness», not «a fitness». From the adjective «fit». Slang/informal: «get fit», «keep fit». In maths, fitness problems often count steps, laps or minutes of exercise.

In the corpora

• Breathing faster during exercise is normal, because the muscles need more oxygen, and fitness builds up gradually.
• Fitness builds from many small, regular sessions, not from one huge session.
• Fitness fades when you stop training, but it comes back faster than it took to build the first time.
• Two cans means twice the caffeine and more jitters and a bigger crash, not twice the fitness.
• A console game trains thumbs and quick eyes, but not running, balance, touch on a real ball or fitness.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fitness» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.