athletic competition

1. 1.

   a contest between athletes

   Synonymsathletic contestathletics

   Broadercontest

   NarrowerdecathlonOlympic GamesSpecial Olympicspreliminarypentathlonmeettriple jumptug-of-war

Questions about athletic competition

What does athletic competition mean?

athletic competition means "a contest between athletes".

What is another word for athletic competition?

Close synonyms include athletic contest, athletics. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is athletic competition a common word?

athletic competition is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.