Definitions

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  • noun A form of aerobic exercise based on jazz dance.

Etymologies

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

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Examples

  • But one can't help feeling that he skates away from his argument while distracting you with yet another of his side-trips—on how, for instance, the ancient Romans might have made some sense out of the word "jazzercise."

    Lost and Found In Translation Lee Sandlin 2011

  • Sparkly stripes swirl around people as they mix jazzercise and a favorite childhood pastime — hula hooping — to create a whole new level of aerobics.

    Hooping.org | Blog | Hoopdance Spins Into Popularity at University of California Santa Barbara 2009

  • They intend to do jazzercise every day and have a clever plan to get showers which seemed horribly overambitious to us, but hey, if they can make it work, more power to them.

    MDRS-88 sol 14 photos kateyule 2010

  • On Friday, I asked this striking blond who wandered into a bar full of French people dressed in '80s jazzercise getups, where she got her smart, chic, just-below-the-shoulder cut.

    The Upside: Cost Cut Your Haircut 2010

  • On Friday, I asked this striking blond who wandered into a bar full of French people dressed in '80s jazzercise getups, where she got her smart, chic, just-below-the-shoulder cut.

    Andrea Chalupa: The Upside: Cost Cut Your Haircut 2010

  • Who can forget the era of cocaine, jazzercise, short shorts (for men and women), heavy metal hair bands, ripped jeans, Madonna, and Michael Jackson (when he was still a normal human from the planet Earth)?

    Friday Night Man Approved 1980's Male Flesh 2008

  • The three of them went shopping together and took jazzercise classes.

    The Christmas Cookie Club Ann Pearlman 2009

  • We met at an early-morning jazzercise class, carrying coffee in with our gym bags.

    The Christmas Cookie Club Ann Pearlman 2009

  • The hell with all this jazzercise and step aerobics.

    The Christmas Cookie Club Ann Pearlman 2009

  • On Friday, I asked this striking blond who wandered into a bar full of French people dressed in '80s jazzercise getups, where she got her smart, chic, just-below-the-shoulder cut.

    Andrea Chalupa: The Upside: Cost Cut Your Haircut 2009

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