Usually means: Sports involving physical exertion, competition.
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  1. athletics: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. athletics: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. athletics: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. athletics: Collins English Dictionary
  5. athletics: Vocabulary.com
  6. Athletic's, Athletics, athletics: Wordnik
  7. athletics: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Athletics, athletics: Wiktionary
  9. athletics: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. athletics: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. athletics: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Athletics, athletics: Dictionary.com
  13. athletics: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Athletics (band), Athletics (disambiguation), Athletics (physical culture), Athletics (sport), Athletics: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Athletics: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. athletics: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. athletics: Rhymezone
  18. Athletics: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. athletics: Free Dictionary
  20. athletics: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. athletics: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. athletics: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Athletics (track and field), athletics: Encyclopedia

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  1. Athletics: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See athletic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (sports, especially Britain) A group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country and racewalking.
noun:  (sports, especially US) Physical activities such as sports and games requiring stamina, fitness and skill.
noun:  (baseball) The team The Oakland Athletics, previously Kansas City Athletics and Philadelphia Athletics.
noun:  (US, sports) Nickname for many athletic teams whose full name includes "Athletics".

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