Definition of workout
(Entry 1 of 2)
1 : a practice or exercise to test or improve one's fitness for athletic competition, ability, or performance
2 : a test of one's ability, capacity, stamina, or suitability
3 : an undertaking or plan intended to resolve a problem of indebtedness especially in lieu of bankruptcy or foreclosure proceedings
work out
verbworked out; working out; works out
Definition of work out (Entry 2 of 2)
1a : to bring about by labor and exertion
work out your own salvation — Philippians 2:12 (King James Version)
b : to solve (something, such as a problem) by a process of reasoning or calculation
c : to devise, arrange, or achieve by resolving difficulties
after many years of wrangling, worked out a definite agreement— A. A. Butkus
d : develop the final situation is not worked out with psychological profundity— Leslie Rees
2 : to discharge (a debt) by labor
3 : to exhaust (something, such as a mine) by working
1a : to prove effective, practicable, or suitable
how this will actually work out I don't know— Milton Kotler
b : to amount to a total or calculated figure
—used with at or to
2 : to engage in a workout
works out regularly at the gym
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The first known use of workout was in 1534
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