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Webster 1913 Edition

Athletics

Ath-let′ics

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Noun.

The art of training by athletic exercises; the games and sports of athletes.

Definition 2024

Athletics

Athletics

See also: athletics

English

Proper noun

Athletics

(baseball) The team The Oakland Athletics, previously Kansas City Athletics and Philadelphia Athletics.
(US, sports) Nickname for many athletic teams whose full name includes "Athletics".

See also

Appendix:English names of sports teams
Oakland Athletics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

athletics

athletics

See also: Athletics

English

Noun

athletics

(sports) Physical activities such as sports and games requiring stamina, fitness and skill.
A group of sporting activities which includes track and field, road running, cross country and racewalking.

Related terms

athleticism

Translations

competitive activities

Albanian: atletikë (sq)
Armenian: աթլետիկա ‎(atʿletika)
Bulgarian: атлетика ‎(atletika)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 運動 (zh), 运动 (zh) ‎(yùndòng), 競技 (zh), 竞技 (zh) ‎(jìngjì), 體育 (zh), 体育 (zh) ‎(tǐyù)
Czech: atletika (cs) f
Dutch: atletiek (nl) f
Finnish: urheilu (fi), yleisurheilu (fi) (track and field)
French: athlétisme (fr) m
German: Athletik f

Hindi: खेलकूद ‎(khelkūd), व्यायाम (hi) m ‎(vyāyām)
Italian: atletica (it) f
Khmer: អត្តពលកម្ម ‎(at tak pol lak kam)
Maltese: atletika
Maori: kaipara
Portuguese: atletismo (pt) m
Romanian: atletism (ro)
Russian: атле́тика (ru) f ‎(atlétika)
Spanish: atletismo (es) m
Swahili: riadha (sw)
Swedish: friidrott (sv) c