"do physical work" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to physical labor or exercise. For example: "He spends his days doing physical work in the fields."
"They don't do physical work for hours on end and are actually only allowed to do one performance a day.
He was unable to do physical work in the fields, so he left for Zhejiang province on the coast to look for a factory job.
They were healthier than our children because they didn't have car, didn't shop online, and likely had to do physical work ten hours a day six days a week.
In 1965, on the brink of the Cultural Revolution, the Party announced an initiative to provide every production brigade with "trained medical personnel who are practitioners part time and do physical work".
Before resentment builds with an unequal burden on any one person, families can talk over who can pay for care when it is needed and who can do physical work for a parent.
A landowner, he takes pride in waking up early to mow and do physical work.
He was a little shorter than Patrick, but more muscular, as if he did physical work.
The big difference: they were sharecroppers, people who did physical work.
While they did have to learn new skills, those farmers-turned-factory-workers were still doing physical work.
In the times of ancient mariners it was held that not only were women incapable of doing physical work aboard a ship but also that they were a distraction to the men onboard.
