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How to use athletics in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Athletics means a group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country and racewalking. Example: “Since retiring from athletics, he has developed a paunch.”

Examples of athletics by meaning

nounPhysical activities such as sports and games requiring stamina, fitness and skill.

  • The University of Phoenix, a for-profit educational institution, has turned the traditional relationship between athletics and higher education on its head, reducing it to its commercially exploitive essence.2009 January 17, William C. Rhoden, “University Sells Itself During Playoffs”, in The New York Times

More sentences with athletics

  • Since retiring from athletics, he has developed a paunch.From the entry paunch
  • An example of layer-cake federalism is recreation programs such as athletics or instructional programs.2013, David Emanuelson, Leisure Services Financial Management, Human Kinetics, →ISBN, page 139. From the entry layer-cake federalism
  • Students approach athletics at the College in a typically unusual, but very "Shimerian" way.1966 September 7, “Shimer College”, in Diocesan Press Service. From the entry Shimerian
  • Is this the future of college athletics?2019 November 13, Luke Winkie, “Why Colleges Are Betting Big on Video Games”, in The Atlantic. From the entry varsity
  • Illinois athletics is a dumpster fire right now.2015 August 28, Kevin Trahan, “The University of Illinois is a dumpster fire”, in insidenu.com, retrieved 27 Oct 2016. From the entry dumpster fire
  • Must be good at athletics, home repairs, making mince interesting and finding the pair to the other glove.1996, Kathy Lette, Mad Cows, page 219. From the entry pair
  • But how do you sell the kids on athletics as a manly endeavour when the pre-game meal is pancakes?”1971 May 14, “Clancy Loranger”, in The Province, Vancouver, B.C., page 20. From the entry flapjacky
  • A member of Taiwan's indigenous Amis tribe, Kuo showed sporting talent at an early age, training in judo, basketball and athletics in her native Taitung county.2021 July 6, “'Goddess of weightlifting' Kuo carries Taiwan's Olympic hopes”, in France 24, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2021. From the entry judo
  • As a girl she had speed and a knock-kneed moxie at athletics, and might have done more with it if she hadn't harvested all the glory already.1971, John Updike, Rabbit Redux, page 401. From the entry moxie
  • In athletics, this may take the form of point-shaving, college recruiting scandals, performance drugs — all of which are quickly becoming as commonplace as sixand seven-figure salaries for sports stars.2013, Alfie Kohn, No Contest: The Case Against Competition. From the entry point-shaving
  • He also excelled at athletics, rugby and tennis but his ability to amass a huge cricket score in a single innings was soon to gain him headlines around the world.2001, Australian Legends, R.I.C. Publications, →ISBN. From the entry cricket score

Meaning of athletics

  1. noun A group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country and racewalking.
  2. noun Physical activities such as sports and games requiring stamina, fitness and skill.

Full definition of athletics

Questions about athletics in a sentence

How do you use athletics in a sentence?
Athletics is used as a noun. For example: “Since retiring from athletics, he has developed a paunch.”
What is a short sentence with athletics?
“Is this the future of college athletics?”
What does athletics mean?
Athletics means a group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country and racewalking.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: athletics (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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