| a sport performed indoors or outdoors and made up of several events, as running, pole-vaulting, shot-putting, and broad-jumping. |
[trak-uh
n-feeld] 
| of, pertaining to, or participating in the sports of running, pole-vaulting, broad-jumping, etc.: a track-and-field athlete. |
| track and field n. Athletic events performed on a running track and the field associated with it. track'-and-field' (trāk'ən-fēld') adj. |