Athletic
[æθ'letɪk] or [æθ'lɛtɪk]
Definition
(adj.) having a sturdy and well proportioned body; 'an athletic build' .
(adj.) relating to or befitting athletics or athletes; 'athletic facilities' .
Checked by Jo--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to athletes or to the exercises practiced by them; as, athletic games or sports.
(a.) Befitting an athlete; strong; muscular; robust; vigorous; as, athletic Celts.
Typist: Rex
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Strong, stout, robust, sturdy, brawny, muscular, lusty, sinewy, nervous, stalwart, powerful, strapping, Herculean, able-bodied, made of iron.[2]. Gymnastic.
Checked by Llewellyn
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Strong, vigorous, powerful, stalwart, brawny, muscular, ablebodied, lusty,sinewy, robust
ANT:Weak, puny, effeminate, nerveless, strengthless, unbraced
Edited by Ervin
Examples
- The country was taut and excited like an athletic competitor at the end of his training. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He sat on the chair with his athletic Irish legs crossed, and these legs, in that attitude, he circled with the bandana and bound firmly together. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Woodrow Wilson brought to public life an exceedingly flexible mind,--many of us when he first emerged rejoiced at the clean and athletic quality of his thinking. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I was then a child of but five years, yet I well remember the tall, dark, smooth-faced, athletic man whom I called Uncle Jack. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- If he is an elderly man he is not this active cyclist who sprints away from that young lady's athletic pursuit. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Alone, he might hope to survive for years; for he was a strong, athletic man. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- What happened with {sic} this: This young fellow had employed his afternoon at the athletic grounds, where he had been practising the jump. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Into all contests requiring athletic skill and courage, the young man, from his boyhood upwards, had flung himself with all his might. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Typist: Ludwig