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Definition of Athletic contest
1. Noun. A contest between athletes.
Generic synonyms: Competition, Contest
Specialized synonyms: Decathlon, Olympiad, Olympic Games, Olympics, Special Olympics, Prelim, Preliminary, Pentathlon, Meet, Sports Meeting, Hop-step-and-jump, Triple Jump, Tug-of-war
Lexicographical Neighbors of Athletic Contest
Literary usage of Athletic contest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on the Early History of the Kingship by James George Frazer (1905)
"... partly elective—Personal qualities required in candidates for kingship —Possession
of princess and of crown determined by athletic contest—King's Flight ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"This they say, and they do in honour of Perseus after Hellenic fashion thus,—they
hold an athletic contest, which includes the whole list of games, ..."
3. Official Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the N.E. Association of (1898)
"Now, according to that rule as it stands, those boys are by that act forever
debarred from taking part in any public athletic contest in Harvard University, ..."
4. Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern by Herodotus, Cornelius Tacitus, Philip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Raleigh, Walter Biggs, Edward Haies, George Campbell Macaulay (1910)
"This they say, and they do in honour of Perseus after Hellenic fashion thus,—they
hold an athletic contest, which includes the whole list of games, ..."
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