workoutとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈwɜːk.aʊ̯t/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈwɝk.aʊ̯t/

名詞

workout (複数形 workouts)

1. An exercise session; a period of physical exercise.
   • 2008, Jim Montgomery, Mo Chambers, Mastering Swimming, page 157

     The following guidelines for smart weekly scheduling can simplify this piece of the planning: Swim three or four workouts each week.

2. A schedule or program of specific exercises, especially one intended to achieve a particular goal.
   • 2007, Peter Twist, Complete Conditioning for Hockey, page 170

     If athletes do too much too soon, they will be stiff and sore 24 to 48 hours after a new workout.

   • 2010, Mark Alvisi (quote from a reader), "Mark of a Champion", Muscular Development 47(1): 350

     I read in another magazine about a workout that can put a whole inch on your arms in just one day!

3. (by extension) Any activity that requires much physical or mental effort, or produces strain.
   • 2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club‎^[1]:

     After the camera pans around and we welcome back a lot of familiar faces (Edmure Tully! Yara Greyjoy! Brienne!), the themes of opposition to fate, emotional appeals, and ethical duty get an even better workout.

   • 2001, Jan Karon, A Common Life: The Wedding Story, page 41

     Cynthia's phone got a workout, as well. In approximately three days since the news had hit the street, a total of five bridal showers had been booked, not to mention a luncheon at Esther Cunningham's and tea at Olivia Harper's.

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動詞

work out (三人称単数 現在形 works out, 現在分詞 working out, 過去形および過去分詞形 worked out)

1. (transitive, with object after out) To calculate.

   Can you work out 250 × 12 in your head for me?

   Can you work out how to get to the university by car?

   • 2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 22:

     You don't have to be Einstein to work out that this level of government subsidy is unsustainable.

2. (transitive) To make sense of.

   Synonym: figure out

   I can't work these instructions out.

3. (transitive) To smooth or perfect.

   This is a beta version; we're still working out the kinks.

4. (intransitive) To conclude with the correct solution.

   These figures just don't work out.

5. (intransitive) To succeed; to result in a satisfactory situation.

   Are you still seeing John? – No, it didn't work out.

   • 1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 131:

     As everyone knows, almost all booked passenger and freight trains are diagrammed into rosters for engines and men, and in an operating Utopia everything would work out daily according to plan.

6. (intransitive) To exercise, especially by lifting weights.

   John won't be here for a while because he's working out.

   Wow, you're looking good! Do you work out?

7. (transitive) To strengthen a part one’s body by exercise.

   To work out your core

8. (intransitive, US) To earn a wage working away from one's farm.
   • 1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 5, p. 38,^[1]

     The two Russians made good farmhands, and in summer they worked out together.

   • 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Viking, 1958, Chapter 13, p. 201,^[2]

     […] with them good wages, maybe a fella can get hisself a little piece a land an’ work out for extra cash.

9. (transitive) To bring about or cause to happen by work or effort.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:

     "Ah! if man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out his own salvation!"

10. (transitive, intransitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see work,‎ out.

    Using some tweezers, he worked the bee sting out of his hand.

    He works out of a small office shared with three others.

引用

• 1971, Carol King, “So Far Away”, Tapestry, Ode Records

  If I could only work this life out my way / I’d rather spend it bein' close to you.

• 2009, Reif Larsen, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, Penguin Books, p.41:

  "I have some questions I need to work out. Big questions."

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