workout

workout
workout (n.) 1909, "boxing bout for practice," from WORK (Cf. work) + OUT (Cf. out). General sense of "spell of strenuous physical exercise” is attested by 1922. Verbal phrase work out “solve” (a problem, etc.) is from c.1600. Sense of “succeed” attested by 1909.

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