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Physical education   /fˈɪzɪkəl ˌɛdʒəkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Physical education

noun
1.
Training in the development of and care for the human body; stresses athletics; includes hygiene.





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"Physical education" Quotes from Famous Books



... propagate their kind, is briefly alluded to in an early chapter of this work. Where father and mother are both consumptive the chances are that the children will inherit physical weakness, which will result in the same disease, unless great pains are taken to give them a good physical education, and even then the probabilities are that they will find life a burden ...
— Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners • B.G. Jefferis
... too strong for theory. And we admit, for the sake of truth, that physical education is not so entirely neglected among us as the absence of popular games would indicate. We suppose, that, if the truth were told, this last fact proceeds partly from the greater freedom of field-sports in this ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, March, 1858 • Various


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