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Blend of desk +‎ exercise

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deskercise (countable and uncountable, plural deskercises)

  1. Desk exercise; the performance of exercises at a desk as a means of promoting health and fitness.
    • 2007, Judith Munat, Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts, page 117:
      If one part consists of a whole word such as oildraulic or deskercise, the parse is fairly easy, and the next task is to identify the source of the splinter (-draulic < hydraulic, and -ercise < exercise).
    • 2002 McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine.
      deskercise Exercises performed while seated at the workplace

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