athletics

IPA: æθɫˈɛtɪks

(sports, especially Britain) A group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country and racewalking.
(sports, especially US) Physical activities such as sports and games requiring stamina, fitness and skill.
(baseball) The team The Oakland Athletics, previously Kansas City Athletics and Philadelphia Athletics.
(US, sports) Nickname for many athletic teams whose full name includes "Athletics".

Examples of "athletics" in Sentences

Now I am not saying that the business of college athletics is all wrong.
The paralypmics gave me nightmares, but only because athletics is so boring to sit through.
In return, they expect the kid to recognize that athletics is the reason they are at the institution.
I am partly intrigued by some of what we have been talking about what I described as the athletics of consciousness.
Its clear that Africans are over represented in athletics, is this purely cultural, or does it have a basis in genetics?
The wizards at Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University are renowned for many things -- wisdom, magic, and their love of teatime -- but athletics is most assuredly not on the list.
Boise State's ascent to national prominence came amid a 52% rise in athletics spending in that same four-year period, close to tripling a 19% increase in total institutional expenditures.
At some of the schools where athletics is most heavily subsidized, faculty salaries have dipped, state-funded financial aid is drying up and students are bracing for tuition and fee increases.
There is an argument that some of the greatest figures, at least in athletics, may not have had the careers they had because their off-field antics, from Babe Ruth to Mickey Mantle, would have been the subject of scrutiny that Brett Favre and Tiger Woods now go through.