Deskercise

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Desk exercise; the performance of exercises at a desk as a means of promoting health and fitness. countable, uncountable

    "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)."

Example

More examples

"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)."

Etymology

Blend of desk + exercise.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.