广播体操 (ān) — broadcast calisthenics (standardized group exercises set to radio music, a Chinese cultural institution)

Definition

A standardized set of group exercises done to music broadcast over a public speaker — a familiar daily routine in Chinese schools and workplaces since the 1950s.

noun
broadcast calisthenics (standardized group exercises set to radio music, a Chinese cultural institution)
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Examples

  • 广播体操
    Měi tiān zǎo shàng shí diǎn, quán xiào xué shēng dōu yào zuò ān.
    Every morning at ten, all students in the school do broadcast calisthenics.
  • 广播体操
    ān Zài zhōng guó yǐ jīng yǒu qī shí duō nián de lì shǐ le.
    Broadcast calisthenics has been around in China for over seventy years.
  • 广播体操
    Gōng sī zǔ zhī yuán gōng měi tiān xià wǔ zuò yí biàn ān.
    The company organizes employees to do one round of broadcast calisthenics every afternoon.

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