athletic sock

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   a sock worn for athletic events

   Synonymssweat sockvarsity sock

   Broadersock

Questions about athletic sock

What does athletic sock mean?

athletic sock means "a sock worn for athletic events".

What is another word for athletic sock?

Close synonyms include sweat sock, varsity sock. 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 sock a common word?

athletic sock 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.