physical fitness
noun
: good health and strength achieved through exercise
The program promotes healthy eating and physical fitness.
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Sessions cover water safety, CPR, first aid, the role of a lifeguard, physical fitness training, rescue techniques and environmental impacts.
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Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2025
You may be required to lose weight or improve your physical fitness before qualifying for certain surgeries.15 This is usually to help lower risks that come with surgical procedures, and to help improve your health after surgery.
—Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 16 June 2025
Besides improvements in his physical fitness, Mitchell had to make the big jump from Canisius in the mid-major Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.
—Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 11 Mar. 2025
Police and fire departments have sometimes defeated disparate impact challenges over physical fitness test requirements on grounds that good fitness is essential to those jobs.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 5 May 2025
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Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2025
You may be required to lose weight or improve your physical fitness before qualifying for certain surgeries.15 This is usually to help lower risks that come with surgical procedures, and to help improve your health after surgery.
—Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 16 June 2025
Besides improvements in his physical fitness, Mitchell had to make the big jump from Canisius in the mid-major Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.
—Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 11 Mar. 2025
Police and fire departments have sometimes defeated disparate impact challenges over physical fitness test requirements on grounds that good fitness is essential to those jobs.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 5 May 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 13 Jul. 2025.
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