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    ATHLETIC CONTEST

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A contest between athletesplay

    Synonyms:

    athletic competition; athletic contest; athletics

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting natural events

    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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