physical education

physical education

English

Noun

physical education (uncountable)

1. An element of an educational curriculum concerned with bodily development, physical health and wellness, strength, physical co-ordination, and agility.
   • 2020, Christia Marie Ramos, “Teacher behind exam material body-shaming Angel Locsin undergoing admin probe — DepEd”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer:

     But it can be recalled that Locsin earlier called out DepEd for seemingly being “unaffected” by the actions of a teacher who body-shamed her by describing her “an obese person” in a Physical Education (PE) educational material after the agency issued an apology.

   Synonyms: (abbreviation) PE, phys ed, PhysEd

Synonyms

• gym class

Translations

curriculum component

Arabic: التعليم الجسدي‎ (at-taʿlīm al-jasady), التعليم البدني‎ (at-taʿlīm al-badany) Burmese: ကာယပညာ (my) (kaya.pa.nya) Chinese: Mandarin: 體育／体育 (zh) (tǐyù) Czech: tělesná výchova f, tělocvik m Danish: idræt (da) Dutch: lichamelijke opvoeding f, gymles (nl) f Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: liikunta (fi) French: éducation physique (fr) f Galician: educación física f German: Sportunterricht (de) m Greek: φυσική αγωγή f (fysikí agogí) Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: testnevelés (hu) Icelandic: please add this translation if you can Italian: educazione fisica (it) Japanese: 体育 (ja) (たいいく, taiiku) Korean: 체육(體育) (ko) (cheyuk) Latvian: fiziskā audzināšana f, fiziskā kultūra f, fizkultūra f Lithuanian: kūno kultūra f, (more common in casual conversations) fizinis m Norwegian: Bokmål: kroppsøving m or f Nynorsk: kroppsøving f Polish: wychowanie fizyczne (pl) n, w-f m Portuguese: educação física f Romanian: educație fizică (ro) f Russian: физвоспита́ние (ru) n (fizvospitánije) (short for: физи́ческое воспита́ние n (fizíčeskoje vospitánije)) (generic), физкульту́ра (ru) f (fizkulʹtúra) (short for: физи́ческая культу́ра (ru) f (fizíčeskaja kulʹtúra)) (subject at school) Serbo-Croatian: tjȅlesnī òdgoj m Spanish: educación física Swedish: idrott (sv) c, gymnastik (sv) c, gympa (sv) c (colloquial), idrott & hälsa (current name) Turkish: beden eğitimi (tr) Ukrainian: фізи́чне вихова́ння n (fizýčne vyxovánnja), фізвихова́ння (uk) n (fizvyxovánnja), фізи́чна культу́ра f (fizýčna kulʹtúra), фізкульту́ра f (fizkulʹtúra) Vietnamese: thể dục (vi) (體育), giáo dục thể chất

See also

• physical education on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• athletics
• calisthenics
• exercise
• gymnastics