athleticsn.

Brit.

/aθˈlɛtɪks/,

/əθˈlɛtɪks/, U.S.

/æθ(ə)ˈlɛdɪks/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: athletic adj.

Etymology: < athletic adj.: see -ic suffix 2. Compare the foreign-language parallels cited at athletic adj. and n.

With plural and singular agreement.

1. The practice of an activity requiring physical skill, strength, endurance, etc., often as part of a sporting competition. Now chiefly North American: physical sports and games of any kind.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun]

palaestraa1500

athletic1605

agonistics1685

athletics1738

track and field1905

1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) (at cited word) Gymnasticks, Several dissertations on the ancient Dancing, Spheristics, Athletics, Wrestling, Pugillate, Discus, &c.

1743 (title) Proposals for erecting an amphitheatre for the manly exercise of boxing, by John Broughton, professor of athletics.

1767 London Chron. 12 May 457/2 Giving athletics the lead in this progression,..beginning with Scotch-hop, Foot-ball, Cricket, Tennis, Wrestling, Fencing, Hunting, &c.

1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk III. xl. 89 [He] was now suffering from lumbago—the result of some unwarranted liberty with his backbone in athletics.

1860 N.Y. Herald 8 Apr. 7/3 New and original feats of aerial athletics by the Hanlon Brothers.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) In practising any athletics, or aiming at a mark, it is very common to hear, ‘That was a good offer, then!’.

1904 R. H. Barbour (title) On your mark!: a story of college life and athletics.

1992 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 27 Feb. d5 Winning national championships weren't the be-all and end-all. Making sure kids graduated came first before athletics.

2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Sept. b14/1 The emphasis on sports pays off: athletics serve as..a powerful marketing tool that generates free advertising on ESPN and the sports pages.

2. spec. (originally British). Track and field events, including running races and various contests in jumping and throwing; the practice or sport of competing in these.The usual term for the sport in most English-speaking areas; in North America track and field (see track n. 6e) is preferred.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > track athletics

athletics1866

track athletics1890

track1934

1866 Contemp. Rev. 3 378 A hope that the newly formed Amateur Club will..communicate the same high tone and encouragement to athletics..as the M.C.C. does to cricket.

1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation 316 Pretending to think that cricket, boating, and athletics, as now conducted, are only recreations.

1894 A. D. Godley Aspects Mod. Oxf. 31 The modern tendency to professionalism in athletics.

1928 Daily Express 30 Nov. 19 University athletics are undergoing a strenuous process of ‘pepping up’, on strictly scientific lines.

1945 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 14 Oct. 21/1 Schemes are in the air for an up-to-date boxing arena, indoor athletics, professional tennis and many other activities.

1959 R. Galton & A. Simpson Hancock's Half-hour (1987) 163 Athletics dear. Throwing things, jumping about, running, all that lark.

1979 Austral. Women's Weekly 29 Aug. 1/3 As the ‘golden girl’ of athletics in the '50s, Betty Cuthbert won three events at the Olympics in Melbourne and made an ‘impossible’ comeback in 1964 in Tokyo.

2006 Athletics Weekly 14 Dec. 38/1 BBC producers were conveniently able to merge athletics with sports such as swimming, cycling and gymnastics.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, as athletics association, athletics meeting, athletics programme, athletics stadium, etc.

ΚΠ

1885 Official Year-bk. Church of Eng. 70 It [sc. the Young Men's Friendly Society] has now a Poor Law Unions Department, a Registry Department,..a Deaf and Dumb Department, and an Athletics Department.

1897 State Normal Monthly (Emporia, Kansas) Oct. 9/1 The various sections of the athletics association are pretty well organized.

1926 Hamilton (Ohio) Daily News 26 May 9/4 Miami and U. C. were tied on points for the trophy at the beginning of the spring athletics program.

1960 Times 12 July 13/4 It isn't only the field events that are a poor show at top-class athletics meetings.

1993 Guardian 21 Aug. 1/6 Colin Jackson hurdled his way into the record books in Stuttgart last night, winning a third athletics gold medal for Britain.

2012 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 8 Sept. 90 A whopping 80,000 people packed the athletics stadium yesterday to watch 15-year-old Queenslander Rheed McCracken win a bronze medal on debut in the T34 200m.

C2.

athletics club n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > specific club

spoofery1895

athletics club1954

1954 Times 8 Feb. 10/2 The Athletics Club of the South-West Essex Technical College are holding the sixth annual London colleges trophy race next Wednesday.

1993 Computing 29 July 29/2 A fully equipped athletics club where programmers are encouraged to work off their stress.

2004 P. D. Howe Sport, Professionalism & Pain Introd. 3 In both the environment of the athletics club and various disabled sporting festivals I have been well situated, physically, to undertake ethnographic research.

athletics track n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > course or track

coursec1320

race1612

piste1696

route1771

track1836

path1883

athletics track1952

parcours1971

1952 Times 22 Aug. 5/4 The London County Council already provides and maintains athletics tracks at Battersea Park, Tooting Common..and Parliament Hill.

1974 Irish Times 10 July 4/1 It is an appalling state of affairs that a city of Cork's size and sporting tradition should still be without an athletics track.

2004 A. Ayers Archit. Paris 288/1 In response to the call for adjustable seating permutations, the lowest tier slides away on rails to reveal an athletics track underneath.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	athletics
释义	athleticsn. Brit. /aθˈlɛtɪks/, /əθˈlɛtɪks/, U.S. /æθ(ə)ˈlɛdɪks/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: athletic adj. Etymology: < athletic adj.: see -ic suffix 2. Compare the foreign-language parallels cited at athletic adj. and n. With plural and singular agreement. 1. The practice of an activity requiring physical skill, strength, endurance, etc., often as part of a sporting competition. Now chiefly North American: physical sports and games of any kind. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] palaestraa1500 athletic1605 agonistics1685 athletics1738 track and field1905 1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) (at cited word) Gymnasticks, Several dissertations on the ancient Dancing, Spheristics, Athletics, Wrestling, Pugillate, Discus, &c. 1743 (title) Proposals for erecting an amphitheatre for the manly exercise of boxing, by John Broughton, professor of athletics. 1767 London Chron. 12 May 457/2 Giving athletics the lead in this progression,..beginning with Scotch-hop, Foot-ball, Cricket, Tennis, Wrestling, Fencing, Hunting, &c. 1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk III. xl. 89 [He] was now suffering from lumbago—the result of some unwarranted liberty with his backbone in athletics. 1860 N.Y. Herald 8 Apr. 7/3 New and original feats of aerial athletics by the Hanlon Brothers. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) In practising any athletics, or aiming at a mark, it is very common to hear, ‘That was a good offer, then!’. 1904 R. H. Barbour (title) On your mark!: a story of college life and athletics. 1992 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 27 Feb. d5 Winning national championships weren't the be-all and end-all. Making sure kids graduated came first before athletics. 2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Sept. b14/1 The emphasis on sports pays off: athletics serve as..a powerful marketing tool that generates free advertising on ESPN and the sports pages. 2. spec. (originally British). Track and field events, including running races and various contests in jumping and throwing; the practice or sport of competing in these.The usual term for the sport in most English-speaking areas; in North America track and field (see track n. 6e) is preferred. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > track athletics athletics1866 track athletics1890 track1934 1866 Contemp. Rev. 3 378 A hope that the newly formed Amateur Club will..communicate the same high tone and encouragement to athletics..as the M.C.C. does to cricket. 1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation 316 Pretending to think that cricket, boating, and athletics, as now conducted, are only recreations. 1894 A. D. Godley Aspects Mod. Oxf. 31 The modern tendency to professionalism in athletics. 1928 Daily Express 30 Nov. 19 University athletics are undergoing a strenuous process of ‘pepping up’, on strictly scientific lines. 1945 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 14 Oct. 21/1 Schemes are in the air for an up-to-date boxing arena, indoor athletics, professional tennis and many other activities. 1959 R. Galton & A. Simpson Hancock's Half-hour (1987) 163 Athletics dear. Throwing things, jumping about, running, all that lark. 1979 Austral. Women's Weekly 29 Aug. 1/3 As the ‘golden girl’ of athletics in the '50s, Betty Cuthbert won three events at the Olympics in Melbourne and made an ‘impossible’ comeback in 1964 in Tokyo. 2006 Athletics Weekly 14 Dec. 38/1 BBC producers were conveniently able to merge athletics with sports such as swimming, cycling and gymnastics. Compounds C1. General attributive, as athletics association, athletics meeting, athletics programme, athletics stadium, etc. ΚΠ 1885 Official Year-bk. Church of Eng. 70 It [sc. the Young Men's Friendly Society] has now a Poor Law Unions Department, a Registry Department,..a Deaf and Dumb Department, and an Athletics Department. 1897 State Normal Monthly (Emporia, Kansas) Oct. 9/1 The various sections of the athletics association are pretty well organized. 1926 Hamilton (Ohio) Daily News 26 May 9/4 Miami and U. C. were tied on points for the trophy at the beginning of the spring athletics program. 1960 Times 12 July 13/4 It isn't only the field events that are a poor show at top-class athletics meetings. 1993 Guardian 21 Aug. 1/6 Colin Jackson hurdled his way into the record books in Stuttgart last night, winning a third athletics gold medal for Britain. 2012 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 8 Sept. 90 A whopping 80,000 people packed the athletics stadium yesterday to watch 15-year-old Queenslander Rheed McCracken win a bronze medal on debut in the T34 200m. C2. athletics club n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > specific club spoofery1895 athletics club1954 1954 Times 8 Feb. 10/2 The Athletics Club of the South-West Essex Technical College are holding the sixth annual London colleges trophy race next Wednesday. 1993 Computing 29 July 29/2 A fully equipped athletics club where programmers are encouraged to work off their stress. 2004 P. D. Howe Sport, Professionalism & Pain Introd. 3 In both the environment of the athletics club and various disabled sporting festivals I have been well situated, physically, to undertake ethnographic research. athletics track n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > course or track coursec1320 race1612 piste1696 route1771 track1836 path1883 athletics track1952 parcours1971 1952 Times 22 Aug. 5/4 The London County Council already provides and maintains athletics tracks at Battersea Park, Tooting Common..and Parliament Hill. 1974 Irish Times 10 July 4/1 It is an appalling state of affairs that a city of Cork's size and sporting tradition should still be without an athletics track. 2004 A. Ayers Archit. Paris 288/1 In response to the call for adjustable seating permutations, the lowest tier slides away on rails to reveal an athletics track underneath. 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