athletics
Origin of athletics
1pronunciation note For athletics
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How to use athletics in a sentence
In the 2001 ALDS, the Yankees led the Oakland athletics 1-0 in the seventh inning.
10 Unforgettable Derek Jeter Highlights (VIDEO) | Jack Holmes | September 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor thousands of kids, particularly poor kids in the South, where football is a way of life, athletics has been a road out.
Football Great Bob Suffridge Wanders Through the End Zone of Life | Paul Hemphill | September 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI mean, college athletics, football in particular, has changed dramatically over the years.
Welcome to the 2014 College Football Season: Exploitation, Florida State, and the Accused | Robert Silverman | August 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAfterwards, in the afternoon, campers pick between theater, dance, athletics, and crafts.
A Camp Away From Terror: Where Israeli and Palestinian Kids Find Common Ground | Nina Strochlic | August 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThat is, like all things, a matter of perspective (as well as being a question of whether one is a Giants or an athletics fan).
New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 1913: How We Celebrated 100 Years Ago | Charles Emmerson | December 31, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
My objections to your sports and athletics seem to have very little reality about them, children, said Mrs. Belding.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage | Gertrude W. MorrisonThe sports themselves were those that we are accustomed to group together as track and field athletics.
The Private Life of the Romans | Harold Whetstone JohnstonThe latter learned that in athletics especially the rivalry between the two lower and the two upper classes was intense.
Ruth Fielding At College | Alice B. EmersonHaving ploughed the mortgaged acres, and tossed hay and broken colts, college athletics struck him as rather puerile diversion.
A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith NicholsonRespite came to him for a year or two before he went to college because athletics became his god.
The Boy Grew Older | Heywood Broun
British Dictionary definitions for athletics
/ (æθˈlɛtɪks) /
track and field events
(as modifier): an athletics meeting
sports or exercises engaged in by athletes
the theory or practice of athletic activities and training
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