What is "athletic competition"

Usage examples of "athletic competition".

They had a fire going most of the time in the middle of the circle, which served as a center for their daytime activities: music, dance, tumbling, athletic competition, and storytelling (which seemed to be a kind of fanciful history combined with moral instruction).

Data tried various frequencies, but found only more of the same until the end of the athletic competition.

For most Graysons, the sword was simply another form of athletic competition, and that, in great part, was how Honor saw it, too.

The Romans, like the Greeks before them (who gave us the model for the Olympic Games), took athletic competition very seriously.

Q said casually, as though discussing some minor athletic competition, “.

I told him the story of my father, who used to give me endless lectures about the wonders of a healthy mind in a healthy body, and how young men should temper their bodies with hardships and with feats of athletic competition.

But I must tell you, sir, Federation law and Starfleet regulations do not exist to be bandied about like rules in an athletic competition.

Astro grinned and pointed to the trophy case at the other side of the huge lobby, where most of the trophies for inter-unit athletic competition bore the name Polaris.

One of the scientists at the banquet told me in entire seriousness that, were Savage to enter athletic competition, his name would leap to the headlines of every paper in the country.