athletic contest

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athletic contest - a contest between athletes

athletic competition, athletics

contest, competition - an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants

decathlon - an athletic contest consisting of ten different events

Olympic Games, Olympics, Olympiad - 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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In an athletic contest, a crown was a garland wreath given to the winner.

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They play the game differently, want it to be an athletic contest. Well we won't be wearing singlets and running shorts out there.

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When watching an athletic contest or an action sequence in a movie, audiences are fixated on athletes and stars performing their best moves and stunts.

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In the piece, turned into a YouTube video viewed by thousands, Meyers tells of Lubelczyk and other adults defeating students in an athletic contest and never letting Meyers forget it whenever they met in later years.

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Parkway High School is continued to creating a positive environment for sporting events that is free of disruption to the athletic contest or game."

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Traktor Sazi has become a focal interest for many Azeri nationalists and there have reportedly been periodic outbreaks of anti-Persian chants at its games, so the team's final game had political and ethnic overtones beyond a mere athletic contest.

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Others were irritated to the point of violence by the civilian view that combat was an athletic contest that followed the rules of sportsmanship.

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This rigorous and well-written history chronicles the many attempts to reform college athletics from the very first intercollegiate athletic contest in America--a student run crew meet held on August 3, 1852 between Harvard and Yale on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, (that just "coincidentally" had a sponsor--the Boston to Montreal rail line)--to the April 2010 appointment of Mark Emmert as president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

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King refers to the passage where Paul, exhorting the Christians to work together, uses a Greek verb which roughly means "playing on the same side together in an athletic contest."

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The NFL championship game has, over the decades, evolved into much more than an athletic contest, becoming a corporate celebration that overshadows the on-field action.