jazzercise

English

Etymology

Blend of jazz +‎ exercise, a trademark of the 1960s.

Noun

jazzercise (uncountable)

1. A form of aerobic exercise based on jazz dance.
   • 2004, Karin Slaughter, A Faint Cold Fear: A Novel, page 107:

     I don't know when the hearse is gonna be ready, and Mama has her Jazzercise on Mondays.

   • 2002, Jennifer Weiner, In Her Shoes: A Novel, page 136:

     Probably because when she got her period, her father had been so completely freaked out he'd left her in the bathroom, bleeding onto wadded-up toilet paper, for three hours, until Sydelle returned from her Jazzercise class with a box of sanitary napkins.

   • 1983, Belinda E. Puetz, Linda J. Shinn, Networking for Nurses: Intra and Interprofessional Relations, page 148:

     Denise reports that one of the members of her Jazzercise class works for City Hospital, where the nurses also are organized.

Related terms

• aquasize, aquacise
• boxercise
• dancersize, dancercise
• sexercise

Verb

jazzercise (third-person singular simple present jazzercises, present participle jazzercising, simple past and past participle jazzercised)

1. (intransitive) To perform this kind of exercise.