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Athletic

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having to do with athletes. not-comparable

    "Are you a member of the American Athletic Association?"

  2. 2
    Physically active.

    "Since you're such an athletic person, you may wish to consider joining."

  3. 3
    Having a muscular, well developed body, being in shape.

    "You have such an athletic build—you must work out regularly."

  4. 4
    An attribute of a motion or play which requires fine physical ability.

    "The center fielder made an athletic play to snatch the ball from over the fence."

  5. 5
    Of a level in a Super Mario game: with an emphasis on platforming challenge, often involving precise jumps between floating platforms above a bottomless pit, and having upbeat background music.

    "An athletic course in which Mario must traverse rotating lifts and stretch blocks."

Adjective
  1. 1
    vigorously active wordnet
  2. 2
    having a sturdy and well proportioned body wordnet
  3. 3
    relating to or befitting athletics or athletes wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A muscular, large–boned person, in the typology of Ernst Kretschmer.
  2. 2
    A player on the team Oakland Athletics.

    "Smith became an Athletic as a result of a pre-season trade."

  3. 3
    Short for Athletic Club, a Spanish professional club more often known in English as Athletic Bilbao. abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-tromder. Ancient Greek ἆθλον (âthlon) Ancient Greek ᾱ̓θλέω (āthléō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek ἀθλητής (athlētḗs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek ᾱ̓θλητῐκός (āthlētĭkós)bor. Latin āthlēticuslbor. Middle French athletiquebor. English athletic Borrowed from Middle French athletique and Latin āthlēticus, from Ancient Greek ἀθλητικός (athlētikós, “relating to an athlete”), from ἀθλητής (athlētḗs, “athlete”): equivalent to athlete + -ic. For more, see athlete. The Super Mario sense is effectively a reborrowing of Japanese アスレチック (asurechikku, “obstacle course”), originally borrowed from English athletic; this sense was itself originally a clipping of the genericized wasei eigo trademark フィールドアスレチック (fīrudo asurechikku, “Field Athletic”).

Etymology 2

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-tromder. Ancient Greek ἆθλον (âthlon) Ancient Greek ᾱ̓θλέω (āthléō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek ἀθλητής (athlētḗs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek ᾱ̓θλητῐκός (āthlētĭkós)bor. Latin āthlēticuslbor. Middle French athletiquebor. English athletic Borrowed from Middle French athletique and Latin āthlēticus, from Ancient Greek ἀθλητικός (athlētikós, “relating to an athlete”), from ἀθλητής (athlētḗs, “athlete”): equivalent to athlete + -ic. For more, see athlete. The Super Mario sense is effectively a reborrowing of Japanese アスレチック (asurechikku, “obstacle course”), originally borrowed from English athletic; this sense was itself originally a clipping of the genericized wasei eigo trademark フィールドアスレチック (fīrudo asurechikku, “Field Athletic”).

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