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athletic contest

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Noun1.athletic contestathletic contest - a contest between athletes          
contest, competition - an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants
decathlon - an athletic contest consisting of ten different events
Olympic Games, Olympics, Olympiad - the modern revival of the ancient 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
prelim, preliminary - a minor match preceding the main event
pentathlon - an athletic contest consisting of five different events
meet, sports meeting - a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held
hop-step-and-jump, triple 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; the team dragged across a central line loses


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00 or more for the privilege of enjoying the spectacle of a high school athletic contest.
If the discipline of the Spartans was to prepare for war, and if the exercises of the Greek athlete were to prepare him for the athletic contest, the asceticism of the pre-Easter Jesus movement was similarly a strategy to meet a specific goal.
My school's track-and-field team, on which I was the javelin thrower, had traveled by train from Budapest to Prague, Czechoslovakia, where we competed in an athletic contest.
 
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