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Definition of Athletic type
1. Noun. Muscular and big-boned.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Athletic Type
Literary usage of Athletic type
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Heads, Faces, Types, Races by Victor Gabriel Rocine (1910)
"THE athletic type. This is the most wiry type that we have. People of this type,
have, as a rule, a cat-like face, a chin developed forwardly, a broad, ..."
2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1912)
"Back view of heavier athletic type of normal individual. (From Sargent.) Fig. 7.
Typical male athletic type. (Model from Sylvester Simon's gymnasium. ..."
3. Essays on the Art of Pheidias by Charles Waldstein (1885)
"But if the type on the coin has thus been influenced in its later history by a
famous athletic type by a well-known Peloponnesian sculptor, ..."
4. Papers and Proceedings of the ... General Meeting of the American Library by General Meeting, American Library Association (1909)
"I think most of us can remember, for instance, a time when the athletic type of
boy's story, now so popular, and well represented by the books of Ralph ..."
5. Putnam's Magazine (1910)
"Contrasted with this type of student, which may be said to represent the athletic
type, stands the scholarly student with his drooping head, flat chest, ..."
6. A Handbook of Greek Sculpture by Ernest Arthur Gardner (1897)
"... the squarely-made and vigorous form, the athletic type of the Amazon, who
though female in sex, is male in modelling and in proportion, the resemblance ..."
7. Putnam's Magazine (1910)
"Contrasted with this type of student, which may be said to represent the athletic
type, stands the scholarly student with his drooping head, flat chest, ..."
8. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1894)
"I do not mean to say that some are not born of an athletic type, but I do mean
that the best born athlete will never become a perfect one unless he be ..."
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