athletic competition

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Noun

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athletic competition - a contest between athletes athletic contest, athleticscontest, competition - an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestantsdecathlon - an athletic contest consisting of ten different eventsOlympic Games, Olympics, Olympiad - the modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected countrySpecial Olympics - an athletic contest modeled after the Olympic Games but intended for mentally or physically handicapped personsprelim, preliminary - a minor match preceding the main eventpentathlon - an athletic contest consisting of five different eventsmeet, sports meeting - a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are heldhop-step-and-jump, triple jump - an athletic contest in which a competitor must perform successively a hop and a step and a jump in continuous movementtug-of-war - a contest in which teams pull of opposite ends of a rope; the team dragged across a central line loses