How to say it in Chinese

Exercise in Chinese

exercise · HSK 2

运动 yùn dòng

  1. 运 yùn to move
  2. 动 dòng to move

Counted with 项: 一项运动 yí xiàng yùndòng

我最喜欢的运动是游泳。 My favorite sport is swimming.

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How do you say exercise in Chinese?

Exercise in Chinese is 运动 (yùn dòng). You can also say 锻炼 (duàn liàn), 健身 (jiàn shēn), 练习 (liàn xí), 活动 (huó dòng).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.