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athletic contest

NOUN
  1. a contest between athletes

How To Use athletic contest In A Sentence

  • I even won prizes in the school's Annual Athletic Contest in my freshman year.
  • Therefore, everybody set a higher request to athletic contest's retransmission quality.
  • To knock down ( an opponent in an athletic contest ) by hooking the neck with an outstretched arm.
  • The popularity of the athletic contests at Olympia grew so great that in the first half of the sixth century games were added at Delphi the so-called Pythian Games as well as at Nemea and the Isthmus of Corinth. THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
  • The ancient epic had its counterpart in athletic contests just as the medieval romance had its counterpart in jousts and tournaments between knights.
  • The ancient epic had its counterpart in athletic contests just as the medieval romance had its counterpart in jousts and tournaments between knights.
  • The ancient epic had its counterpart in athletic contests just as the medieval romance had its counterpart in jousts and tournaments between knights.
  • The priest assures Phormion that the entrails of the victim foretokened every possible favor in future athletic contests -- and this, and his insinuating smile, win him a silver drachma to supplement his share of the lamb. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
  • In this context, streetball is as much about performance art as it is an athletic contest.
  • When the reception was over, old Hector took charge of the homely games and athletic contests, and the day's delights culminated in a log-burling contest in the Skookum, in which the young laird participated. Kindred of the Dust
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