ATHLETIC COMPETITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does athletic competition mean? 

• ATHLETIC COMPETITION (noun)
  The noun ATHLETIC COMPETITION has 1 sense:

1. a contest between athletes

  Familiarity information: ATHLETIC COMPETITION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATHLETIC COMPETITION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A contest between athletes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

athletic competition; athletic contest; athletics

Hypernyms ("athletic competition" is a kind of...):

competition; contest (an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "athletic competition"):

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)