calisthenic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”) + σθένος (sthénos, “strength”).
Adjective
[edit]calisthenic
- Of, or relating to calisthenics.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 102-103:
- I will pass over the days of pap and petting, red shoes and blue sash, as being that only period when any thing of equality subsists between the sexes; and pass on to the time when all girls are awkward, and most of them ugly—days of back-boards and collars, red elbows, French, Italian, musical and calisthenic exercises.