athleticadj.n.

Brit.

/aθˈlɛtɪk/,

/əθˈlɛtɪk/, U.S.

/æθ(ə)ˈlɛdɪk/

Forms: 1500s–1600s athletique, 1600s athletike, 1600s–1700s athletick, 1600s– athletic; U.S. regional 1900s– athaletic, 1900s– atheletic, 1900s– athuletic.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French athletique; Latin āthlēticus.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French athletique, French athlétique (adjective) characteristic of or appropriate to an athlete (1372–4), designating a contest between or activity pursued by athletes (1534), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin āthlēticus of or relating to an athlete < ancient Greek ἀθλητικός of or relating to an athlete < ἀθλητής athlete n. + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare slightly earlier athletical adj. With use as adjective compare Spanish atletico (1638 or earlier), Portuguese atletico (a1522), Italian atletico (1543), German athletisch (1527) of or relating to athletes. With use as noun compare classical Latin āthlētica (Pliny; use as noun (short for ars āthlētica (2nd cent. a.d. in Aulus Gellius)) of feminine singular of āthlēticus ), French athlétique art or skill of an athlete, sporting contest, activity requiring physical skill (a1747 with reference to ancient Rome). With use as noun compare also athletics n.In sense A. 3 after German athletisch (1922 in this sense in the passage translated in quot. 1925).

A. adj.

a. Designating a contest or activity which requires the use of physical capabilities that are characteristic of athletes, such as strength, agility, speed, and endurance. In later use also: (in English-speaking areas outside North America) designating a track and field event or competition (see athletics n. 2). Also figurative.Cf. slightly earlier athletical adj.

ΘΚΠ

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

palaestrala1425

palaestrialc1460

palaestrical1579

athletical1581

athletic1585

agonistical1643

agonistic1656

palaestric1658

athletary1660

palaestrian1828

pan-athletic1897

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. x. f. 86^v Their ordinarie appparrell, whiche they weare without the exercise Athletique [Fr. l'exercice Athletique].

1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God Ep. Ded. sig. A3 Your Athletick Conflicts with the greatest of Temporal Evils.

1750 Philos. Trans. 1748 (Royal Soc.) 45 607 For the baiting of wild beasts, or other athletic diversions.

1778 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. Digest 118 Let the Amusements of those Mirth-Days be athletic and exhilarating.

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. vii. 161 Rackets..is, like any other athletic game, very much a thing of skill and practice.

1873 A. Helps Some Talk about Animals & their Masters v. 131 He was never much given to athletic pursuits.

1906 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 26 4 This rough and tumble is not suitable for an athletic competition: it is too dangerous and too undisciplined.

1950 Oxf. Junior Encycl. IX. 35/1 This department of athletic sports includes the Long and High Jumps, the Hop, Step, and Jump, Pole Vaulting, Putting the Weight, and Throwing the Discus, the Javelin, and the Hammer.

2002 E. Small Kids & Sports v. 56 Athletic activity also instills the skills of teamwork and a sense of camaraderie.

b. Of or relating to athletes, or to the sports and events in which they participate. In later use also: (chiefly British) of or relating to athletics (athletics n. 2).

ΚΠ

1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 83 Ὑποπιάζω..is an athletique pugilar word.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1684) 17 The Athletick Diet was of Pulse.

1728 T. Gordon tr. Tacitus Wks. I. xiv. 382 This year Nero constituted an Athletick school [L. gymnasium].

1869 Sporting Life 17 Mar. 4/2 One [race] of a character entirely new to the athletic world, viz. an ‘Obstacle Race’.

1877 Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 452/1 Some seventy-five young men..met..for the purpose of organising an athletic club.

1891 G. Kobbé N.Y. & its Environs Introd. 64 The Racquet and Tennis Club..has racquet courts and complete gymnastic and athletic equipment.

1918 L. E. Ruggles Navy Explained 14 Every ship has an athletic officer.

1955 R. Bannister First Four Minutes v. 60 To raise the standard of British athletic achievement, particularly in field events.

1972 Washington Post 17 Mar. d2/1 Of 54 students now competing in track, about half hold no athletic scholarship.

2007 Independent 25 June (Extra section) 9/2 The new styles are closer to athletic shoes.

a. Characteristic of or appropriate to an athlete; demonstrating the strength, agility, endurance, etc., that characterizes athletes.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [adjective] > characteristic of athlete

Amazonian1595

athletic1644

gymnastic1785

1644 K. Digby Two Treat. Concl. 461 All those contentments and delights, which require a strong, vigorous, and athletike habite of body to enioy.

1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (lxxiii. 4 Annot.) 358/2 An athletick health and habit of body.

1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 148 Many great Families are insensibly fallen off from the Athletick Constitution of their Progenitors.

1793 Sporting Mag. 2 24/1 These Canarians have given such remarkable proofs of their athletic powers.

1819 J. Wilson Compl. Dict. Astrol. Strong signs,..because they are said to give strong athletic bodies.

1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights (1884) 114 A well-directed and athletic kick.

1896 H. Monroe John Wellborn Root v. 143 The effect is one of athletic dignity and power, with the supple grace of perfect poise.

1920 Amer. Woman Aug. 5/1 His athletic deeds on diamond, gridiron, and cinder track.

1970 J. McPhee Crofter & Laird 21 With light, athletic motions, he moved as fast as he could.

2004 Daily Star (Nexis) 18 Apr. 8 The 21-year-old showed off his athletic build wearing black and grey Speedos and a blue cap.

b. Of a person: of the nature of an athlete; having the characteristic physical features of an athlete, esp. in being strong, energetic, agile, or muscular.

ΚΠ

1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs 150 What intercalation or advent is there that is common to sound Athletick Enterprisers, with the cure of Feavers?

1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus xlix. 534 Not as effeminate persons use, saith Seneca, to doe, but as of old Athletique and Pugillary men did.

1700 J. Dryden Fables Ded. sig. C One of those Athletick Brutes whom undeservedly we call Heroes.

1752 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 6 Jan. (1932) (modernized text) V. 1817 He is an athletic Hibernian, handsome in his person.

1814 W. Scott Waverley I. x. 128 He was a tall, thin, athletic figure,..with every muscle rendered as tough as whip-cord by constant exercise.

1877 H. M. Field Lakes of Killarney 121 That little brook..an athletic leaper would almost clear at a single bound.

1914 Times 13 May 11/5 The antimacassared ease of early Victorian times..was better than the excesses of the modern athletic girl.

1974 J. B. Keane Lett. of Love-hungry Farmer 34 He took my advice and joined with a bigger and more athletic boy who was an excellent player.

2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 6 Jan. ix. 7/2 After about three days, most reasonably athletic people can learn to [snow]board.

3. Cultural Anthropology and Psychology. In E. Kretschmer's theory of human physical and temperamental types: designating a type of physique characterized by strong muscles and bones. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > [adjective] > good

well-madec1325

well-setc1330

featous1340

largec1405

well-trussedc1425

well-attempereda1460

well-featureda1460

clean-limbed1461

well-bodied1481

well-drawn?a1534

clean-madea1535

trussed1548

clean-legged1568

trim1568

well-knit1581

well-thewed1583

well-timbered1595

clear-limbed1596

clean-timbered1598

well-mounted1607

well-turned1631

clever1674

neat-limbeda1697

well built1706

well-set-up1790

clean-built1840

athletic1925

mesomorphic1926

1925 W. J. H. Sprott tr. E. Kretschmer Physique & Char. i. ii. 24 The male athletic type [G. der männliche athletische Typus] is recognised by the strong development of the skeleton, the musculature and also the skin.

1937 R. H. Thouless Gen. & Social Psychol. (ed. 2) vi. 109 [Kretschmer] divides men into three physical types: the athletic (large muscle and bones), the asthenic or leptosomatic (lean, flat-chested, and narrow-shouldered), and the pyknic (with tendency to rounded contours of face and body).

1990 T. E. Weckowicz & H. P. Liebel-Weckowicz Hist. Great Ideas Abnormal Psychol. x. 220 Sheldon's mesomorphic type and Kretschmer's athletic type also had affinities.

2000 H. J. Eysenck & S. Brody Smoking, Health & Personality (new ed.) 104 Extraverts tend to be pyknic or athletic.

B. n. See also athletics n.

†1. = athletics n. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

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

palaestraa1500

athletic1605

agonistics1685

athletics1738

track and field1905

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Kk2^v Art of Actiuitie, which is called athletic .

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. For Athletique, I take the subiect of it largely.

1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica 233 Galen..inveighs against the Athletick, and other violent Practices of the Gymasium [sic].

2. = athlete n.

ΘΚΠ

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

gamer1564

athletic1682

athlete1822

gymnasiarch1825

weekend athlete1941

thin-clad1947

Olympian1977

1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece v. 370 Prove..this Place to have been dedicated to the Publick Use of those Athleticks.

1696 J. Edwards Demonstr. Existence God i. ii. 25 Some celebrated Athletick that is famous for his Nimbleness of Feet.

1780 T. Francklin tr. Lucian Wks. I. 413 Athletics of all kinds hold it necessary, not only to prepare the body by exercise and discipline, but sometimes to give it proper relaxation.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. ii. vii. 315 The magistrate..shall retain in his service..jesters, and dancers, and athletics.

1921 H. C. Witwer Rubyiat of Freshman 11 Your Uncle Joe..was the champion checker player of Wayne County, Pa., and he was the athletic of our family.

1994 Toronto Star 2 July (Ontario ed.) a1/2 They're elite athletics of the mind, math brainiacs.

2007 J. J. Smith Essent. Reading Sport vii. xli. 415/2 Six motives that are the most consistently listed by young athletics between the ages of 8 and 19.

Compounds

C1.

athletic-looking adj.

ΚΠ

1809 J. MacDonald Trav. Denmark & Sweden II. 68 The Swedes have in general sallow complexions.., and are a tall, athletic-looking race of men.

1890 A. Conan Doyle Firm of Girdlestone xvi. 122 The clerks soon found that the sunburnt, athletic-looking young man intended to be anything but a sleeping partner.

1969 I. Kemp Brit. G.I. in Vietnam iii. 47 A sun-tanned, crew-cut, athletic looking mid-Westerner from Green Bay, Wisconsin.

2011 T. Hadley in New Yorker 7 Nov. 67/1 Marina was tall and athletic-looking, in black leggings and trainers and a pink puffa jacket.

C2.

athletic heart n. = athlete's heart n. at athlete n. Compounds 2; frequently attributive.

ΚΠ

1886 Med. Rec. 18 Dec. 695/1 Other cases to the number of twelve were added, and included one of weak heart after pneumonia, one of athletic heart possibly (?), one of excessive frequency of cardiac action.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 29 Oct. 14/1 [He] failed to qualify before the Medical Board of the police on the ground that he had an ‘athletic heart’.

1943 Amer. Heart Jrnl. 25 614 ‘Athletic heart’, in the sense of a permanently enlarged, clinically inferior heart, does not exist in the absence of etiologic factors which are scientifically accepted as the cause of actual or potential cardiac disease.

2002 Physician & Sportsmed. 30 41 Differentiating between athletic heart syndrome and HCM [= hypertrophic cardiomyopathy] requires careful examination.

athletic support n. North American = athletic supporter n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > jock strap

supporter1888

jockey strap1896

jockstrap1897

athletic supporter1899

athletic support1911

jock1952

1911 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring–Summer 179/2 Athletic Support. Sharp & Smith's Bike-Jock Strap, being made entirely of elastic.

1991 Running (BNC) Apr. The specialist diagnosed an ‘inflamed pubic bone’ and recommended that I wear an athletic support for sport.

athletic supporter n. North American a jockstrap.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > jock strap

supporter1888

jockey strap1896

jockstrap1897

athletic supporter1899

athletic support1911

jock1952

1899 L.A.W. Bull. & Good Roads 2 June 769/1 (advt.) If you want comfort, convenience and health you will use Dr. Dyoll's Hygienic Athletic Supporter.

1975 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 11 Feb. 15/2 There are even some who..swear that time after time the ice was strewn with the athletic supporters of the KCVI team.

2008 Herald News (Passaic County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 3 Apr. c1 Jock straps, otherwise called athletic supporters, with which I have frequently snapped myself in delicate areas.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	athletic
释义	athleticadj.n. Brit. /aθˈlɛtɪk/, /əθˈlɛtɪk/, U.S. /æθ(ə)ˈlɛdɪk/ Forms: 1500s–1600s athletique, 1600s athletike, 1600s–1700s athletick, 1600s– athletic; U.S. regional 1900s– athaletic, 1900s– atheletic, 1900s– athuletic. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French athletique; Latin āthlēticus. Etymology: < (i) Middle French athletique, French athlétique (adjective) characteristic of or appropriate to an athlete (1372–4), designating a contest between or activity pursued by athletes (1534), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin āthlēticus of or relating to an athlete < ancient Greek ἀθλητικός of or relating to an athlete < ἀθλητής athlete n. + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare slightly earlier athletical adj. With use as adjective compare Spanish atletico (1638 or earlier), Portuguese atletico (a1522), Italian atletico (1543), German athletisch (1527) of or relating to athletes. With use as noun compare classical Latin āthlētica (Pliny; use as noun (short for ars āthlētica (2nd cent. a.d. in Aulus Gellius)) of feminine singular of āthlēticus ), French athlétique art or skill of an athlete, sporting contest, activity requiring physical skill (a1747 with reference to ancient Rome). With use as noun compare also athletics n.In sense A. 3 after German athletisch (1922 in this sense in the passage translated in quot. 1925). A. adj. 1. a. Designating a contest or activity which requires the use of physical capabilities that are characteristic of athletes, such as strength, agility, speed, and endurance. In later use also: (in English-speaking areas outside North America) designating a track and field event or competition (see athletics n. 2). Also figurative.Cf. slightly earlier athletical adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [adjective] palaestrala1425 palaestrialc1460 palaestrical1579 athletical1581 athletic1585 agonistical1643 agonistic1656 palaestric1658 athletary1660 palaestrian1828 pan-athletic1897 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. x. f. 86^v Their ordinarie appparrell, whiche they weare without the exercise Athletique [Fr. l'exercice Athletique]. 1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God Ep. Ded. sig. A3 Your Athletick Conflicts with the greatest of Temporal Evils. 1750 Philos. Trans. 1748 (Royal Soc.) 45 607 For the baiting of wild beasts, or other athletic diversions. 1778 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. Digest 118 Let the Amusements of those Mirth-Days be athletic and exhilarating. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. vii. 161 Rackets..is, like any other athletic game, very much a thing of skill and practice. 1873 A. Helps Some Talk about Animals & their Masters v. 131 He was never much given to athletic pursuits. 1906 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 26 4 This rough and tumble is not suitable for an athletic competition: it is too dangerous and too undisciplined. 1950 Oxf. Junior Encycl. IX. 35/1 This department of athletic sports includes the Long and High Jumps, the Hop, Step, and Jump, Pole Vaulting, Putting the Weight, and Throwing the Discus, the Javelin, and the Hammer. 2002 E. Small Kids & Sports v. 56 Athletic activity also instills the skills of teamwork and a sense of camaraderie. b. Of or relating to athletes, or to the sports and events in which they participate. In later use also: (chiefly British) of or relating to athletics (athletics n. 2). ΚΠ 1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 83 Ὑποπιάζω..is an athletique pugilar word. a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1684) 17 The Athletick Diet was of Pulse. 1728 T. Gordon tr. Tacitus Wks. I. xiv. 382 This year Nero constituted an Athletick school [L. gymnasium]. 1869 Sporting Life 17 Mar. 4/2 One [race] of a character entirely new to the athletic world, viz. an ‘Obstacle Race’. 1877 Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 452/1 Some seventy-five young men..met..for the purpose of organising an athletic club. 1891 G. Kobbé N.Y. & its Environs Introd. 64 The Racquet and Tennis Club..has racquet courts and complete gymnastic and athletic equipment. 1918 L. E. Ruggles Navy Explained 14 Every ship has an athletic officer. 1955 R. Bannister First Four Minutes v. 60 To raise the standard of British athletic achievement, particularly in field events. 1972 Washington Post 17 Mar. d2/1 Of 54 students now competing in track, about half hold no athletic scholarship. 2007 Independent 25 June (Extra section) 9/2 The new styles are closer to athletic shoes. 2. a. Characteristic of or appropriate to an athlete; demonstrating the strength, agility, endurance, etc., that characterizes athletes. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [adjective] > characteristic of athlete Amazonian1595 athletic1644 gymnastic1785 1644 K. Digby Two Treat. Concl. 461 All those contentments and delights, which require a strong, vigorous, and athletike habite of body to enioy. 1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (lxxiii. 4 Annot.) 358/2 An athletick health and habit of body. 1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 148 Many great Families are insensibly fallen off from the Athletick Constitution of their Progenitors. 1793 Sporting Mag. 2 24/1 These Canarians have given such remarkable proofs of their athletic powers. 1819 J. Wilson Compl. Dict. Astrol. Strong signs,..because they are said to give strong athletic bodies. 1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights (1884) 114 A well-directed and athletic kick. 1896 H. Monroe John Wellborn Root v. 143 The effect is one of athletic dignity and power, with the supple grace of perfect poise. 1920 Amer. Woman Aug. 5/1 His athletic deeds on diamond, gridiron, and cinder track. 1970 J. McPhee Crofter & Laird 21 With light, athletic motions, he moved as fast as he could. 2004 Daily Star (Nexis) 18 Apr. 8 The 21-year-old showed off his athletic build wearing black and grey Speedos and a blue cap. b. Of a person: of the nature of an athlete; having the characteristic physical features of an athlete, esp. in being strong, energetic, agile, or muscular. ΚΠ 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs 150 What intercalation or advent is there that is common to sound Athletick Enterprisers, with the cure of Feavers? 1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus xlix. 534 Not as effeminate persons use, saith Seneca, to doe, but as of old Athletique and Pugillary men did. 1700 J. Dryden Fables Ded. sig. C One of those Athletick Brutes whom undeservedly we call Heroes. 1752 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 6 Jan. (1932) (modernized text) V. 1817 He is an athletic Hibernian, handsome in his person. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. x. 128 He was a tall, thin, athletic figure,..with every muscle rendered as tough as whip-cord by constant exercise. View more context for this quotation 1877 H. M. Field Lakes of Killarney 121 That little brook..an athletic leaper would almost clear at a single bound. 1914 Times 13 May 11/5 The antimacassared ease of early Victorian times..was better than the excesses of the modern athletic girl. 1974 J. B. Keane Lett. of Love-hungry Farmer 34 He took my advice and joined with a bigger and more athletic boy who was an excellent player. 2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 6 Jan. ix. 7/2 After about three days, most reasonably athletic people can learn to [snow]board. 3. Cultural Anthropology and Psychology. In E. Kretschmer's theory of human physical and temperamental types: designating a type of physique characterized by strong muscles and bones. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > [adjective] > good well-madec1325 well-setc1330 featous1340 largec1405 well-trussedc1425 well-attempereda1460 well-featureda1460 clean-limbed1461 well-bodied1481 well-drawn?a1534 clean-madea1535 trussed1548 clean-legged1568 trim1568 well-knit1581 well-thewed1583 well-timbered1595 clear-limbed1596 clean-timbered1598 well-mounted1607 well-turned1631 clever1674 neat-limbeda1697 well built1706 well-set-up1790 clean-built1840 athletic1925 mesomorphic1926 1925 W. J. H. Sprott tr. E. Kretschmer Physique & Char. i. ii. 24 The male athletic type [G. der männliche athletische Typus] is recognised by the strong development of the skeleton, the musculature and also the skin. 1937 R. H. Thouless Gen. & Social Psychol. (ed. 2) vi. 109 [Kretschmer] divides men into three physical types: the athletic (large muscle and bones), the asthenic or leptosomatic (lean, flat-chested, and narrow-shouldered), and the pyknic (with tendency to rounded contours of face and body). 1990 T. E. Weckowicz & H. P. Liebel-Weckowicz Hist. Great Ideas Abnormal Psychol. x. 220 Sheldon's mesomorphic type and Kretschmer's athletic type also had affinities. 2000 H. J. Eysenck & S. Brody Smoking, Health & Personality (new ed.) 104 Extraverts tend to be pyknic or athletic. B. n. See also athletics n. †1. = athletics n. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] palaestraa1500 athletic1605 agonistics1685 athletics1738 track and field1905 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Kk2^v Art of Actiuitie, which is called athletic . View more context for this quotation 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. For Athletique, I take the subiect of it largely. View more context for this quotation 1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica 233 Galen..inveighs against the Athletick, and other violent Practices of the Gymasium [sic]. 2. = athlete n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > athlete gamer1564 athletic1682 athlete1822 gymnasiarch1825 weekend athlete1941 thin-clad1947 Olympian1977 1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece v. 370 Prove..this Place to have been dedicated to the Publick Use of those Athleticks. 1696 J. Edwards Demonstr. Existence God i. ii. 25 Some celebrated Athletick that is famous for his Nimbleness of Feet. 1780 T. Francklin tr. Lucian Wks. I. 413 Athletics of all kinds hold it necessary, not only to prepare the body by exercise and discipline, but sometimes to give it proper relaxation. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. ii. vii. 315 The magistrate..shall retain in his service..jesters, and dancers, and athletics. 1921 H. C. Witwer Rubyiat of Freshman 11 Your Uncle Joe..was the champion checker player of Wayne County, Pa., and he was the athletic of our family. 1994 Toronto Star 2 July (Ontario ed.) a1/2 They're elite athletics of the mind, math brainiacs. 2007 J. J. Smith Essent. Reading Sport vii. xli. 415/2 Six motives that are the most consistently listed by young athletics between the ages of 8 and 19. Compounds C1. athletic-looking adj. ΚΠ 1809 J. MacDonald Trav. Denmark & Sweden II. 68 The Swedes have in general sallow complexions.., and are a tall, athletic-looking race of men. 1890 A. Conan Doyle Firm of Girdlestone xvi. 122 The clerks soon found that the sunburnt, athletic-looking young man intended to be anything but a sleeping partner. 1969 I. Kemp Brit. G.I. in Vietnam iii. 47 A sun-tanned, crew-cut, athletic looking mid-Westerner from Green Bay, Wisconsin. 2011 T. Hadley in New Yorker 7 Nov. 67/1 Marina was tall and athletic-looking, in black leggings and trainers and a pink puffa jacket. C2. athletic heart n. = athlete's heart n. at athlete n. Compounds 2; frequently attributive. ΚΠ 1886 Med. Rec. 18 Dec. 695/1 Other cases to the number of twelve were added, and included one of weak heart after pneumonia, one of athletic heart possibly (?), one of excessive frequency of cardiac action. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 29 Oct. 14/1 [He] failed to qualify before the Medical Board of the police on the ground that he had an ‘athletic heart’. 1943 Amer. Heart Jrnl. 25 614 ‘Athletic heart’, in the sense of a permanently enlarged, clinically inferior heart, does not exist in the absence of etiologic factors which are scientifically accepted as the cause of actual or potential cardiac disease. 2002 Physician & Sportsmed. 30 41 Differentiating between athletic heart syndrome and HCM [= hypertrophic cardiomyopathy] requires careful examination. athletic support n. North American = athletic supporter n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > jock strap supporter1888 jockey strap1896 jockstrap1897 athletic supporter1899 athletic support1911 jock1952 1911 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring–Summer 179/2 Athletic Support. Sharp & Smith's Bike-Jock Strap, being made entirely of elastic. 1991 Running (BNC) Apr. The specialist diagnosed an ‘inflamed pubic bone’ and recommended that I wear an athletic support for sport. athletic supporter n. North American a jockstrap. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > jock strap supporter1888 jockey strap1896 jockstrap1897 athletic supporter1899 athletic support1911 jock1952 1899 L.A.W. Bull. & Good Roads 2 June 769/1 (advt.) If you want comfort, convenience and health you will use Dr. Dyoll's Hygienic Athletic Supporter. 1975 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 11 Feb. 15/2 There are even some who..swear that time after time the ice was strewn with the athletic supporters of the KCVI team. 2008 Herald News (Passaic County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 3 Apr. c1 Jock straps, otherwise called athletic supporters, with which I have frequently snapped myself in delicate areas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1585
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