| NOUN | event | athletic contest, athletic competition, athletics | a contest between athletes |
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| Meaning | A contest between athletes. | |
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| Synonyms | athletic competition, athletics | |
| Narrower | Olympic Games, Olympics, Olympiad | The modern revival of the ancient games / 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 | |
| decathlon | An athletic contest consisting of ten different events | |
| meet, sports meeting | A meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held | |
| pentathlon | An athletic contest consisting of five different events | |
| preliminary, prelim | A minor match preceding the main event | |
| triple jump, hop-step-and-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 | |
| Broader | contest, competition | An occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants |