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ATHLETIC CONTEST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does athletic contest mean?
• ATHLETIC CONTEST (noun)
The noun ATHLETIC CONTEST has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: ATHLETIC CONTEST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A contest between athletes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
athletic competition; athletic contest; athletics
Hypernyms ("athletic contest" 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 contest"):
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)
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