Drive and Exercise

Drive

Drive verb - To urge, push, or force onward.

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Exercise and drive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Exercise" instead the word "Drive" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: driving, driven, driver, driveway

Exercise verb - To bring to bear especially forcefully or effectively.

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Drive and exercise are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Drive" instead the word "Exercise" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: exercised, exercising, exerciser, exercizing, exercized

long	long drive	long exercise
normal	normal drive	normal exercise
regular	regular drive	regular exercise
healthy	healthy drive	healthy exercise
Other adjectives: actual, entire, hard, constant, big, intense, little, major, final, last.

In the Swedish movie The Call-up, the protagonists (who are doing their military service) are out on exercise and need to drive back to base.

Source: Loophole Abuse / Live-Action Film
General Lee Warton in protest for Blackwood's violent drive for wealth, using small teams of elite specialists.Gameplay is focused on class-based teamwork; trying to play alone is an exercise in futility, and Warface is utterly unforgiving even with a full team.

Source: Video Game / Warface
The console versions balance this out with a very unforgiving save system (no automatic checkpoints, manual saves only allowed at safehouses), although the result is generally more an exercise in frustration (having to drive 15 minutes every time you get killed) rather than a test of skill.

Source: Video Game / Far Cry 2

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