athletic
/æθˈlɛt.ɪk/ adjective B1- Having to do with athletes. · Are you a member of the American Athletic Association?
- Physically active. · Since you're such an athletic person, you may wish to consider joining.
- Having a muscular, well developed body, being in shape. · You have such an athletic build—you must work out regularly.
- 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.
- 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.
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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?”
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.
However, in 1988, a group of athletic men from this Caribbean island made history.
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