athletics
(æθletɪks )
1. uncountable noun B1+ regional note: in AM, use track and field
Athletics refers to track and field sports such as running, the high jump, and the javelin. [mainly British]
As the modern Games grew in stature, so too did athletics.
...the International Amateur Athletics Federation.
2. uncountable noun
Athletics refers to any kind of physical sports, exercise, or games. [US]
...students who play intercollegiate athletics.
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Collocations:
athletics championships athletics club athletics coach athletics competition athletics facilities athletics federation athletics stadium college athletics competitive athletics high school athletics intercollegiate athletics
Little wonder that one organiser of the athletics championships complained privately of tightened budgets in the crucial months leading up to the event.
Times,Sunday Times
The biggest sporting event of all has flown by but others, including the world athletics championships in 2017, are on their way.
Times, Sunday Times
His acceleration and flowing style also brought him a record 14 individual titles in the national athletics championships.
Times, Sunday Times
Childhood holidays for the twins were based around major athletics championships; family runs were part of the daily routine.
Times, Sunday Times
The world para athletics championships were held at the stadium this month.
Times, Sunday Times
And my 10-year-old wants to join an athletics club.
Times, Sunday Times
When he applied to join an athletics club, his honest answers about having once been paid to compete in another sport led to rejection and the lifetime ban.
The Times Literary Supplement
Avoid blisters and impact injuries by always wearing the correct type of trainers for running: your local gym or athletics club will be able to give you advice.
Times, Sunday Times
Despite the disruptions, he excelled at the school, winning the mathematic essay prize and becoming president of the athletics club.
Times, Sunday Times
I've been a member of our local athletics club for nearly four years.
The Sun
I have to work three days a week as an athletics coach to support myself.
Times, Sunday Times
It turned out that he was an athletics coach.
Times, Sunday Times
They are thought to have just 10 each in cash and no passports — they were being held by their athletics coach.
The Sun
He participated in a wide variety of sports apart from football, and later worked as a physical training instructor and athletics coach.
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After retirement from competitions, between 1976 and 2000 he worked as athletics coach.
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His love of sport may have stemmed from a victory in an athletics competition as a cadet.
Times, Sunday Times
This can help to maintain an athlete's form during crucial periods, for instance during an athletics competition or a football tournament.
Times, Sunday Times
It was the eighth edition of the athletics competition for throwing events.
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Thirty-seven nations reached the medal table in the athletics competition.
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Of the forty nations present at the competition, fifteen reached the medal table in the athletics competition.
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They include a five-screen multiplex cinema complex, tenpin bowling, athletics facilities, three restaurants, a library and 254 affordable housing units.
The Sun
The club wanted to rebuild the stadium without a running track and develop the athletics facilities elsewhere.
Times, Sunday Times
The fields are home to five rugby pitches, a football pitch, cricket nets, three cricket squares and various athletics facilities.
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The schools had separate offices, libraries, computer labs, classrooms, and gymnasia, but shared cafeteria facilities, a multipurpose facility, and some athletics facilities.
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The college also supports various athletics facilities with our students bringing in laurels from various areas of athletics.
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And there was that man from the athletics federation who optimistically believed he could lie to the nation and the world and get away with it.
ST
It was heavily critical of the country's sports ministry, its athletics federation and the failures of its anti-doping body.
Times, Sunday Times
Many countries around the world have their own ultrarunning organizations, often the national athletics federation of that country, or are sanctioned by such national athletics organizations.
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The mockers had a high old time telling us of the impossibility of transforming an athletics stadium into one for football.
The Sun (2014)
Momentum Aquatics centre or athletics stadium?
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
HELL hath no fury like a lower-league striker given the freedom of the airwaves after a dour 0-0 draw in an athletics stadium.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
That's right; college athletics has legislation that seems biblical.
Christianity Today
The area's many colleges and universities are active in college athletics.
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It also has an award-winning sports section that covers local high-school and college athletics.
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Public perceptions of college athletics are often guided by sports media, who pay limited attention to the portion of college athletics with little commercial interest.
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It had previously been a major power in junior college athletics (notably baseball and basketball).
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After retiring from competitive athletics in 1978 he has worked as a coach and a school principal.
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In the novel he describes the practice of competitive athletics as dangerous to the athlete's health, and as productive of anti-intellectualism and brutality.
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Students at all grade levels participate in competitive athletics, fine arts, and extracurricular activities.
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The physical program includes physical education classes and competitive athletics.
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The school gained ground in a host of important areas, including enrollment, student support services, competitive athletics, alumni relations, board development, annual giving growth, and facilities and grounds upkeep.
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He coached junior high school athletics for 36 years and retired in 1973.
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Although the school has a low enrolement, it still offers some high school athletics.
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This case shines light on the problems of conflicts of interest and politics in high school athletics.
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In addition, a 2008 study of intercollegiate athletics showed that womens collegiate sports had grown to 9,101 teams, or 8.65 per school.
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Students receive a comprehensive college experience that includes residence hall living, student activities, and intramural and intercollegiate athletics.
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Students can participate in music, theatre and intercollegiate athletics in baseball and softball.
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More than half of the students participate in intercollegiate athletics.
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The winds of realignment would sweep across intercollegiate athletics in full force as the next decade dawned.
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Translations:
Chinese: 运动
Japanese: 陸上競技