track and field

1. 1.

   participating in athletic sports performed on a running track or on the field associated with it

   Broadersport

   Narrowertrackjumping

   Part ofmeet

Questions about track and field

What does track and field mean?

track and field means "participating in athletic sports performed on a running track or on the field associated with it".

Is track and field a common word?

track and field 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.