athletic

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative

more athletic

Superlative

most athletic

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

athletics

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.Having to do with athletes.

   • 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.
   • An athletic kid from New Jersey, Fischer was known as a bold risk taker, they called him “the fallingest man in climbing”, until an old-school cragger taught him the Zen of controlled ascent.

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.

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

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.

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