ATHLETIC GAME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does athletic game mean? 

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

1. a game involving athletic activity

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATHLETIC GAME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A game involving athletic activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

game (a contest with rules to determine a winner)

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Meronyms (parts of "athletic game"):

maneuver; manoeuvre; play (a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill)

regulation time ((sports) the normal prescribed duration of a game)

extra time; overtime (playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie)

period of play; play; playing period ((in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds)

time-out (a brief suspension of play)

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

hockey; hockey game; ice hockey (a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled hockey sticks)

tetherball (a game with two players who use rackets to strike a ball that is tethered to the top of a pole; the object is to wrap the string around the pole)

water polo (a game played in a swimming pool by two teams of swimmers who try to throw an inflated ball into the opponents' goal)

outdoor game (an athletic game that is played outdoors)

court game (an athletic game played on a court)