Tra từ athletics - Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

1 doing athletics
2 different kinds of athletics
see also SPORT

1 doing athletics
- the kinds of sport where people run, jump or throw things: athletics (noun U)
Is athletics popular in your school?
- a person who does athletics: athlete
- a person who can do many different kinds of athletics (or other sports) is an all-round athlete, an all-rounder
He can swim, play tennis and run fast - in fact he's a pretty good all-rounder.
- an organized event in which people try to win things: competition, meeting
an international athletics competition/meeting
- an athletics or sports competition: games (noun plural)
the Olympic Games
- a person who takes part in a competition: competitor
- a person who helps an athlete to do well in their sport: coach, trainer
- the fastest, highest, longest, etc ever achieved in a certain type of competition: record
to set a new record ◎ to break a record
※ more on competitions, including results (winning and losing) and records COMPETITION
- a large closed area for sports and games with seats for people to watch: stadium
an athletics stadium
- part of a stadium with seats for people who are watching: stand
- a person who watches a competition: spectator; a large group of people who watch a competition: crowd
Only a small crowd was there to watch.
- a special path, often in a circle, for racing: track
a running track
- the area of land (especially inside the track) for athletic events which are not races: field
- a race or other competition in a sports meeting: event
He's in three different running events. ◎ the women's/men's event ◎ an indoor event
- an event which is done on the track (= running a race): track event
- an event which is done on the field, for example jumping: field event

2 different kinds of athletics
※ running races
- a competition between people to see who can run the fastest: race
to be in a race ◎ to win/lose a race
※ more on running in a race RACE
- a race of a particular length: the 100, 200, etc metres
- a person who runs in a race: runner
a middle-distance runner
- a race where people run over a short distance, often 100 metres: sprint; a person who sprints: sprinter; verb: sprint
a short sprint ◎ a fast sprinter
- a race where people run and jump over small fences: hurdles; a person who hurdles: hurdler; verb: hurdle
He's in the 400 metres hurdles.
- a race where a team of people run and pass each other a stick called a baton: relay (race)
- a race which is run over a distance of about 26 miles or 42 kilometres: marathon
- a race run across the country, over fields and through woods: cross-country
- a race across country or running on a track where runners have to jump over fences and holes full of water: steeplechase
※ jumping
- a competition where people try to jump as far as possible: the long jump (AmE the broad jump); a person who does this sport: long-jumper
to do the long jump
- a long jump which is done with three jumps: the triple jump; a person who does this sport: triple-jumper
- a competition where people try to jump as high as possible: the high jump; a person who does this sport: high-jumper
- a competition where people use a long stick called a pole to jump as high as possible: the pole vault; a person who does this sport: pole-vaulter
※ throwing things
- a competition in which you throw a discus/hammer/shot/javelin as far as possible: the discus/hammer/shot/javelin
She's competing in the javelin and the shot. ◎ to throw the hammer/discus/javelin ◎ to put (= throw) the shot
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- an athletics competition where each person takes part in ten events: decathlon
- an athletics competition where each person takes part in five events: pentathlon
- an illegal drug that is taken by some athletes to make their bodies stronger: steroid
- a test to make sure that an athlete has not taken an illegal drug: drug test