One who competes for prizes
The word athletics came from the word athlon meaning contest.The word athlon comes from ancient greek.
The word "Athletics" come from the Ancient Greek ἀθλητής. Athletics by definition means "combatant in public games", which would make sense because athletes go through quite a bit of training to get to the high competition that you see on TV.
There are many types of athletics at my high school.
Athletics is "athlétisme" (masc.) in French.
athletics : )
People like watching athletics in the Olympics.
Oakland
athletic
Athletics. XD
Abstracted from pentathlon in 1956 to describe an athletics contest in which participants ski and shoot, it comes from the Greek language words meaning two contests.
Track and field