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athletics

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES intercollegiate athletics/sports etc EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Assumption of risk is rarely applicable except in cases of competitive athletics . ▪ But his primary passion was athletics . ▪ For there is some degree of blindness ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Athletics \Ath*let"ics\, n. The art of training by athletic exercises; the games and sports of athletes.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1730, from athletic ; also see -ics . Probably formed on model of gymnastics .

Usage examples of athletics.

An F in the Age of Socrates would have the same consequence: he would be banned from athletics for a semester.

Thus, while designer steroids are likely to haunt athletics for years to come, this is a fight the anti-doping agencies will eventually win, as dopers run out of drugs that not only work, but also evade an ever-more-sophisticated set of tests.

Bannister was a medical student at the time he set his record -- inconceivable today, when athletics is itself a full-time job.

The history of athletics is not foreign to that of medicine, but, on the contrary, the two are in many ways intimately blended.

Perhaps the enthusiasm shown in athletics and interest in physical development among the Greeks has never been equaled by any other people.

The banquet hall, a ballroom high in the student center, reflected the importance of athletics at Western University.

To them I say this: high-school and college athletics are the last bastions of self-discipline and devotion to duty left in America!

There are five more: spacial orientation and art, psychomotor skills and athletics, musical talent, an understanding of others and an ability to work with them, and an understanding of yourself and the ability to handle your own problems.

Both were excellent boxers, as you know, and Barricharan was runner-up to Foulkes in the Victor Ludorum in athletics.

I asked him about athletics, and he said that Helen De Crispin High School had a track team, despite the lack of breatheable air.

Rockford Club is credited with only six games won and is given the last position in the championship race, several of the games with the Athletics being among those declared forfeited.

Athletics took part in fifty professional games, of which they won twenty-seven and lost twenty-three, and in fourteen exhibition games, of which they won twelve and lost two, being defeated in the exhibition series twice by their home rivals, the Philadelphias, which numbered among its players several who had helped to make the Athletics famous in former years, among them being Malone and Mack.

Athletics, we won thirty-one and lost twenty-one, while of the sixty games in which the Bostons figured they won forty-three and lost but seventeen, a wonderful showing when the playing strength of the clubs pitted against them is taken into consideration.

Again and for the fourth time the Boston aggregation carried off the honors, with a record unsurpassed up to that time, as out of seventy-nine games played they won seventy-one and lost but eight, while the Athletics, who finished in the second place, played seventy-three games in all, losing twenty and winning fifty-three.

Exhibition games between the two clubs were played at Liverpool, Manchester, London, Sheffield and Dublin, the Boston Club winning eight games and the Athletics six.