TRACK AND FIELD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does track and field mean? 

• TRACK AND FIELD (noun)
  The noun TRACK AND FIELD has 1 sense:

1. participating in athletic sports performed on a running track or on the field associated with it

  Familiarity information: TRACK AND FIELD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRACK AND FIELD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Participating in athletic sports performed on a running track or on the field associated with it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("track and field" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "track and field"):

running; track (the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track)

jumping (the act of participating in an athletic competition in which you must jump)

Holonyms ("track and field" is a part of...):

meet; sports meeting (a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held)