The word "calisthenics" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a form of exercise consisting of a variety of movements that are often performed without equipment. Example: "She incorporates calisthenics into her daily workout routine to improve her strength and flexibility." Alternatives include "bodyweight exercises" or "aerobic exercises."
A social rather than explicitly political organisation, it presented itself as the world's largest non-governmental group, in which like-minded, khaki-uniformed men could gather for dawn calisthenics.
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At the girls' school she established in 1823 in Hartford, Connecticut, and later at others in Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa, Beecher taught the "movement cure" (calisthenics) and fresh-air living.
The Raja Yoga school and college educated about 300 children, some as a charity, with a program combining shared labour, calisthenics, music and drama, and live-in teachers.
Jahn led young men on fresh-air expeditions, taught gymnastics and calisthenics, and inspired a love for the Fatherland and the purity of the Volk ("people"), thereby instigating a nationalist tradition that filtered down to the Hitler Youth movement many decades later.
Although Ling did not promote competition, free calisthenics have evolved into the competitive sport now known as floor exercise.
Originally patterned after the German turnverein, the Sokol traditionally emphasized mass calisthenics as a means of promoting communal spirit and physical fitness.
In the United States, Catherine Beecher was an early advocate of calisthenics and wrote Physiology and Calisthenics for Schools and Families (1857).
The health benefits of calisthenics were generally recognized by the beginning of the 20th century, and primary and secondary schools throughout the Western world began instituting the exercises as a regular activity.
In 1823 George Bancroft and Joseph Cogswell founded the first American gymnasium, Round Hill School, in Northampton, Massachusetts, and hired German immigrant Charles Beck to teach calisthenics.
He supported himself by illustrating comic valentines and calisthenics books and by drawing for Vanity Fair.
