Crossword clues for athletics
athletics
- American League team
- Track and field sports
- Sports — his cattle (anag)
- Sports — cheat list (anag)
- Only team besides the Yankees to win three consecutive World Series
- Oakland baseball team for which Bob Melvin won the 2012 AL Manager of the Year award
- Lithe acts (anag)
- Concern of N.C.A.A
- Certain university department
- Bay Area team
- One side in the Bay Bridge Series rivalry
- An active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
- A contest between athletes
- Participation in sports events as an extracurricular activity
- Concern of N.C.A.A.
- Concern of the N.C.A.A.
- What could be running Wigan and Oldham?
- Field and track sports
- Title cash disbursed in sporting event
- Oakland team
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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
c.1730, from athletic; also see -ics. Probably formed on model of gymnastics.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context baseball English) The team http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland%20Athletics, previously Kansas City Athletics and Philadelphia Athletics. 2 (context US sports English) Nickname for many athletic teams whose full name includes "Athletics".
WordNet
n. an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition [syn: sport]
a contest between athletes [syn: athletic contest, athletic competition]
participation in sports events as an extracurricular activity
Wikipedia
Athletics may refer to:
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Sport of athletics, an umbrella term for the sports of running (track running, road running, and cross country running), jumping, throwing, and racewalking
- Track and field, the term for this group of sports in North America or, more narrowly, such events held on a track or field
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Athletics (physical culture), sports or games based upon physical competition
- College athletics, athletic sports and organizations at the college level in North America
- Oakland Athletics, a Major League Baseball team in Oakland, California
- Philadelphia Athletics (1860–76), a former baseball team
- Philadelphia Athletics (American Association), a former baseball team from 1882 through 1890
- Philadelphia Athletics (1890–91), a former baseball team
- Philadelphia Athletics (NFL), a former American football team
Athletics is a term encompassing the human competitive sports and games requiring physical skill, and the systems of training that prepare athletes for competition performance. Athletic sports or contests, are competitions which are primarily based on human, physical competition, demanding the qualities of stamina, fitness, and skill. Athletic sports form the bulk of popular sporting activities, with other major forms including motorsports, precision sports, extreme sports and animal sports.
Athletic contests, as one of the earliest types of sport, are prehistoric and comprised a significant part of the Ancient Olympic Games, along with equestrian events. The word "athletic" is derived from the Ancient Greek word άθλος (athlos) meaning "contest". Athletic sports became organized in the late 19th century with the formation of organizations such as the Amateur Athletic Union in the United States and the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques in France. The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the NCAA) was established in 1906 to oversee athletic sports at college-level in the United States, known as college athletics.
Athletics has gained significant importance at educational institutions: talented athletes may gain entry into higher education through athletic scholarships and represent their institution in an athletic conference. Since the Industrial Revolution, people in the developed world have adopted an increasingly sedentary lifestyle and as a result athletics now plays a significant part in providing routine physical exercise. Athletic clubs worldwide offer athletic training facilities for multitudes of sports and games.
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.