Strong's #1129: gumnasia (pronounced goom-nas-ee'-ah)

from 1128; training, i.e. (figuratively) asceticism:--exercise.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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gumnasia

1) the exercise of the body in a palaestra or school of athletics

2) any exercise whatever

2a) the exercise of conscientiousness relative to the body such as is characteristic of ascetics and consists in abstinence from matrimony and certain kinds of food

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G1128

Citing in TDNT: 1:775, 133

Usage:

This word is used 1 times:

 

1 Timothy 4:8: "For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness"