athletics

See also: Athletics

English

Etymology

From athlete +‎ -ics.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æθˈlɛtɪks/

Noun

athletics

1. (sports, especially US) Physical activities such as sports and games requiring stamina, fitness and skill.
2. (sports, especially Britain) A group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country and racewalking.

Related terms

• athleticism

Translations

physical activities

• Albanian: atletikë (sq)
• Armenian: աթլետիկա (atʿletika)
• Bulgarian: атлетика (atletika)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 運動 (zh), 运动 (zh) (yùndòng), 競技 (zh), 竞技 (zh) (jìngjì), 體育 (zh), 体育 (zh) (tǐyù)

• Czech: atletika (cs) f
• Danish: friidræt c, atletik (da) c
• Dutch: atletiek (nl) f
• Finnish: urheilu (fi)
• French: athlétisme (fr) m
• German: Athletik f
• Hindi: खेलकूद (khelkūd), व्यायाम (hi) m (vyāyām)
• Irish: lúthchleas m
• Italian: atletica (it) f

• Khmer: អត្តពលកម្ម (at tak pol lak kam)
• Maltese: atletika
• Maori: kaipara
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: friidrett m

  Nynorsk: friidrett m

• Polish: lekkoatletyka (pl)
• Portuguese: atletismo (pt) m
• Romanian: atletism (ro)
• Russian: атле́тика (ru) f (atlétika)
• Spanish: atletismo (es) m
• Swahili: riadha (sw)
• Swedish: friidrott (sv) c

group of sports

• Finnish: yleisurheilu (fi)

• Indonesian: atletik (id)
• Malay: olahraga