N3 · 40 words
Keeping fit
Warming up, working out, swimming strokes, aching muscles and the sports people play for fun.
Most of these words name an exercise and take する: ストレッチをする, 筋トレをする, 深呼吸をする. Loanwords dominate at the gym; the kanji compounds — 準備運動, 筋肉痛, 腹筋 — are learned at school and are just as common in everyday speech. The swimming strokes are named for what the body does: 平泳ぎ is "flat swimming", 背泳ぎ "back swimming".
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