physical fitness
noun
: good health and strength achieved through exercise
The program promotes healthy eating and physical fitness.
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Those include creating greater lethality in the military, fixing the war colleges, promoting leaders focused on war-winning, putting more of an emphasis on physical fitness, and streamlining the budget process and ensuring spending goes to the most urgent priorities.
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The Editors, National Review, 28 Apr. 2025
This initiative gives guests the opportunity to focus on physical fitness, mental health and nutrition.
—Sherrie Nachman, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
In mid-March, Hegseth ordered the military to investigate how physical fitness standards have changed since 2015.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2025
The Pentagon this week ordered the elimination of lower physical fitness standards for women in combat units, a move that is likely to hinder the recruitment and retention of women in particularly dangerous military jobs.
—Chris Cameron, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2025
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The Editors, National Review, 28 Apr. 2025
This initiative gives guests the opportunity to focus on physical fitness, mental health and nutrition.
—Sherrie Nachman, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
In mid-March, Hegseth ordered the military to investigate how physical fitness standards have changed since 2015.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2025
The Pentagon this week ordered the elimination of lower physical fitness standards for women in combat units, a move that is likely to hinder the recruitment and retention of women in particularly dangerous military jobs.
—Chris Cameron, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for physical fitness
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“Physical fitness.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/physical%20fitness. Accessed 10 May. 2025.
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