锻炼

鍛鍊traditional

HSK 3#3764 by frequencyradical 钅

duàn liàn["v","vn"]

to engage in physical exercise; to work out; to toughen; to temper; (fig.) to develop one's skills; to train oneself

Examples

游泳锻炼肌肉。

Swimming develops your muscles.

爬山是锻炼的好方法。

It's good exercise to climb hills.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.