The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word AEROBIC
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More clues leading to the result AEROBIC
- Writer propping up bar as a kind of exercise
- I love caber-tossing as a form of exercise
- Like some exercise? I carried back some French wine bottles
- A drill set up since regularly requiring oxygen
- Old boy, somehow I race around — is the exercise this?
- Writer’s block previously related to exercise
- A sort of exercise — one carried back in a carriage, to begin with
- Type of workout song, sung by disrobed Robin and Charlie
- Caber one tossed outside circle, as form of exercise
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The straight part
We know that "form of exercise" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case form of exercise = aerobic.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does AEROBIC mean?
AEROBIC adjective- Living or occurring only in the presence of oxygen e.g. aerobic bacteria.
- Of exercise, performed while maintaining a sufficient supply of oxygen to meet bodily energy needs.
- Of or relating to aerobics.