athletic contest

Noun

Meaning

a contest between athletes

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

athletics athletic competition

Hypernyms

competition contest

Hyponyms

olympiad Olympics Olympic Games pentathlon meet preliminary

Examples

It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves. Richard Gere

To him, a ball game wasn't a mere athletic contest. It was a knock-'em-down, crush-'em, relentless war. Moe Berg

Close letter words and terms

athletic apparel athletic clothes athletic competition athletic cup athletic decathlon athletic enthusiast