athletic competition

Noun
  1. A contest between athletes (synset 107471429)
    is a type of: competition, contest - an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants
    subtypes:
    • decathlon - an athletic contest consisting of ten different events
    • olympiad, olympic games, olympics - the modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country
    • special olympics - an athletic contest modeled after the Olympic Games but intended for mentally or physically handicapped persons
    • prelim, preliminary - a minor match preceding the main event
    • pentathlon - an athletic contest consisting of five different events
    • meet, sports meeting - a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held
    • hop-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 movement
    • tug-of-war - a contest in which teams pull of opposite ends of a rope; the team dragged across a central line loses
    same as: athletic contest, athletics

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