Dictionary

deskercise en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of desk + exercise.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Desk exercise; the performance of exercises at a desk as a means of promoting health and fitness.
   • 2002 McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. deskercise Exercises performed while seated at the workplace
   • If one part consists of a whole word such as oildraulic or deskercise, the parse is fairly easy, and the next task is to identify the source of the splinter (-draulic < hydraulic, and -ercise < exercise). 2007, Judith Munat, Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts, page 117:

Forms

Deriveds

deskercising · deskercised

Relateds

jazzercise · sexercise · boxercise