Definition of Athletic contest

1. Noun. A contest between athletes.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Athletic Contest

athiesm
athiest
athiests
athirst
athirst(p)
athleta
athletas
athlete
athlete's foot
athlete's girdle
athlete's girdles
athlete's heart
athletes
athletic
athletic competition
athletic contest (current term)
athletic facility
athletic field
athletic game
athletic heart
athletic injuries
athletic protector
athletic protectors
athletic sock
athletic supporters
athletic training
athletic type
athletic wear
athletically

Literary usage of Athletic contest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lectures on the Early History of the Kingship by James George Frazer (1905)
"... partly elective—Personal qualities required in candidates for kingship —Possession of princess and of crown determined by athletic contest—King's Flight ..."

2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"This they say, and they do in honour of Perseus after Hellenic fashion thus,—they hold an athletic contest, which includes the whole list of games, ..."

3. Official Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the N.E. Association of (1898)
"Now, according to that rule as it stands, those boys are by that act forever debarred from taking part in any public athletic contest in Harvard University, ..."

4. Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern by Herodotus, Cornelius Tacitus, Philip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Raleigh, Walter Biggs, Edward Haies, George Campbell Macaulay (1910)
"This they say, and they do in honour of Perseus after Hellenic fashion thus,—they hold an athletic contest, which includes the whole list of games, ..."

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