WordNet
athletic contest
n. a contest between athletes [syn: athletic competition, athletics]
Usage examples of "athletic contest".
Winnie figured she looked like Daniel Boone at an athletic contest.
Among the Nar, chieftainship was determined by a sort of soldierly athletic contest.
Can you imagine a year-long athletic contest in which everyone on a planet participates?
The occasion was an athletic contest but the principles were much the same except we had to employ holograms and our own humble resources instead of the living creatures at the disposal of my ancestor.
Good enough that he could probably compete in his weight class in the Terran Olympics, which are still the top athletic contest in the settled portion of the universe.