jazzercise

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noun

A form of aerobic exercise based on jazz dance.

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Meanings

nounjazzercise (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA form of aerobic exercise based on jazz dance.

    I don't know when the hearse is gonna be ready, and Mama has her Jazzercise on Mondays.

    2004, Karin Slaughter, A Faint Cold Fear: A Novel, page 107
    2 more examples

    Probably because when she got her period, her father had been so completely freaked out he'd left her in the bathroom, bleeding onto wadded-up toilet paper, for three hours, until Sydelle returned from her Jazzercise class with a box of sanitary napkins.

    2002, Jennifer Weiner, In Her Shoes: A Novel, page 136

    Denise reports that one of the members of her Jazzercise class works for City Hospital, where the nurses also are organized.

    1983, Belinda E. Puetz, Linda J. Shinn, Networking for Nurses: Intra and Interprofessional Relations, page 148
verbjazzercise (third-person singular simple present jazzercises, present participle jazzercising, simple past and past participle jazzercised)

present singular third person jazzercises · participle present jazzercising · participle past jazzercised · past jazzercised

  1. intransitiveTo perform this kind of exercise.

Origin

Blend of jazz + exercise, a trademark of the 1960s.

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APA

jazzercise. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jazzercise

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “jazzercise,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jazzercise.

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