Advertisement

Advertisement

View definitions for athletics

athletics

noun as in sports

Discover More

Example Sentences

In the 2001 ALDS, the Yankees led the Oakland Athletics 1-0 in the seventh inning.

For thousands of kids, particularly poor kids in the South, where football is a way of life, athletics has been a road out.

I mean, college athletics, football in particular, has changed dramatically over the years.

Afterwards, in the afternoon, campers pick between theater, dance, athletics, and crafts.

That is, like all things, a matter of perspective (as well as being a question of whether one is a Giants or an Athletics fan).

My objections to your sports and athletics seem to have very little reality about them, children, said Mrs. Belding.

The sports themselves were those that we are accustomed to group together as track and field athletics.

The latter learned that in athletics especially the rivalry between the two lower and the two upper classes was intense.

Having ploughed the mortgaged acres, and tossed hay and broken colts, college athletics struck him as rather puerile diversion.

Respite came to him for a year or two before he went to college because athletics became his god.

Advertisement

On this page you'll find 12 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to athletics, such as: contest, drill, events, exercises, games, and practice.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement