athletic
/æθˈlɛt.ɪk/ noun C2- A muscular, large-boned person, in the typology of Ernst Kretschmer.
Plural athletics
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Holmes had sprung to his feet, and I saw his dark, athletic outline at the door of the hut, his shoulders stooping, his head thrust forward, his face peering into the darkness.
He was an athletic, gigantic bandit, with large eyes, thick lips, and a flat nose; his red hair fell in dishevelled masses like snakes around his shoulders.
All my lines of thought lead me back invariably to the one basic question—why should an athletic man develop his frame upon so unnatural an instrument as a single dumb-bell?”
The most exciting part of the games is always the heavy athletics.
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