athletic contest

1. 1.

   a contest between athletes

   Synonymsathletic competitionathletics

   Broadercontest

   NarrowerdecathlonOlympic GamesSpecial Olympicspreliminarypentathlonmeettriple jumptug-of-war

Questions about athletic contest

What does athletic contest mean?

athletic contest means "a contest between athletes".

What is another word for athletic contest?

Close synonyms include athletic competition, 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 contest a common word?

athletic contest 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.