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Athletics meaning

  1. A group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country and racewalking.
  2. Physical activities such as sports and games requiring stamina, fitness and skill.

Synonyms of Athletics

sport diversion recreation athletic contest athletic competition contest competition extracurricular activity

Using Athletics

  • The main meaning on this page is: A group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country and racewalking. | Physical activities such as sports and games requiring stamina, fitness and skill.
  • Useful related words include: sport, diversion, recreation, athletic contest.
  • In the example corpus, athletics often appears in combinations such as: the athletics, of athletics, world athletics.

Example sentences (20)

Athletes who were honoured came from a variety of communities and are members of Athletics East, which is the newly formed athletics organization that used to be Chebucto Athletics and Halifast.

Reigning world 200 metres champion Ramil Guliyev said he is using the Gloria Cup athletics meeting here as preparation for the International Association of Athletics Federations World Athletics Championships in Doha which begin later this month.

In much of North America, athletics is synonymous with sports in general, maintaining a more historic usage of the term. The word "athletics" is rarely used to refer to the sport of athletics in this region.

According to Kidese Tadesse, the Ethiopian Athletics Federation (EAF) senior medical expert in athletics, athletes undergo both blood and urine tests.

Last year, she won women's 4x400m relay bronze for GB at the World Athletics Championships, and the European Athletics Championships, and for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games.

Lee Reed, the director of intercollegiate athletics at Georgetown, said the athletics department wanted to organize the summit to help student-athletes navigate the relatively new concept of NIL ownership by individuals.

World Athletics (WA) has taken over the organisation of the Athletics Malawi (AM) elections scheduled for November this year.

Earlier this year athletics coach Jeremy Wallace told the doubtful an athletics track can be built without further funds.

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He said these values are best projected when leaders in the athletics program use their visibility and reputation to spread them, alluding to Peevy’s reference to the athletics program as the “front porch” of the university.

Inspired to pursue an athletics career at the age of 10 after watching Jessica Ennis-Hill win heptathlon gold at London 2012, she has become the first British woman to win an athletics gold since that moment.

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said he welcomed a number of innovative new track start-ups shaking up the sport's status quo, as athletics moves to draw in more eyeballs after another successful Olympics.

At UNM, state money (including student fees) accounts for about 32% of athletics funding, according to Athletics Director Eddie Nuñez.

Rider Athletics became one of the nation’s first athletic departments to have a majority of its staff become certified in Mental Health First Aid, per a release from Rider Athletics.

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), the anti-doping arm of World Athletics, said “a phone call is discretionary and not a mandatory requirement”.

The school said followed a six-month outside study of its athletics program that included Title IX compliance considerations, with athletics director Camden Wood Selig saying the decision to cut a sport “became even more clear” with the pandemic.

Vanderbilt Athletics has accomplished a great deal during my time at Vanderbilt, and the university’s athletics program and student-athletes are poised for future success,” Turner said.

And AK president Jackson Tuwei led the athletics fraternity in congratulating Korir, who is also in the AK executive, saying he has been a formidable pillar in local athletics.

Confirming the discovery of the 38 athletes, the Head Coach of Kwara Athletics, Adeyemi Biodun, who also doubles as the National Athletics Coach in charge of youths said that the athletes were carefully picked from the whole lot.

Considering how many kids who play collegiate athletics actually end up getting paid to play those athletics, they don’t play for “free”!

He also served in the athletics department at Millsaps College for two seasons before joining the ULM athletics department.

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Common combinations with athletics

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Frequently asked questions

How do you use "athletics" in a sentence?
An example: "Athletes who were honoured came from a variety of communities and are members of Athletics East, which is the newly formed athletics organization that used to be Chebucto Athletics and Halifast." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "athletics" from authentic English texts.
What does "athletics" mean?
Athletics means: A group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country and racewalking.
What are synonyms of "athletics"?
Common synonyms of "athletics" include: sport, diversion, recreation, athletic contest, athletic competition, contest, competition, extracurricular activity.
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