bout
noun
[ baʊt ]
• a short period of intense activity of a specified kind.
• "occasional bouts of strenuous exercise"
Similar:
spell,
period,
time,
stretch,
stint,
turn,
run,
session,
round,
cycle,
fit,
burst,
flurry,
spurt,
streak,
sesh,
spot,
• a curve in the side of a violin, guitar, or other musical instrument.
Origin:
mid 16th century (denoting a curve or circuit, hence later a ‘turn’ of activity): from dialect bought ‘bend, loop’; probably of Low German origin.
