adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
athletic build
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She admired his athletic build.
physical/athletic ability
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He has considerable athletic ability.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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Younger, prettier, and more athletic instructors were getting the business.
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Suddenly this flabby and overweight woman decided to do what younger and more athletic daredevils had shrunk from doing.
■ NOUN
ability
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She had always been defined by her athletic ability , and without it she was lost.
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Mostly because of his defense and athletic ability , his playing time has increased the last two weeks.
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The researchers estimated Diatryma's athletic ability as quite adequate to catch most of the contemporary mammals.
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In everything from athletic ability to popularity appearance, brains, and clothes, children rank themselves against others.
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Serious cases of pneumonia can leave damaged areas in the lungs which can affect future athletic ability .
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But they are not allowed to make money from their athletic ability or reputation.
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And he has a lot of athletic ability .
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Young Joe possessed minimal athletic ability and was developing into an overweight child.
career
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My life is very full with my studies at Sheffield University, my athletic career and generally enjoying the student social life.
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She thinks differently about her athletic career than 99 percent of the others in the world.
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The obvious explanation for the vividness of her memory is that it involved an outstanding event in her athletic career .
club
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It also includes the subscription to the Students' Association, athletic clubs and other facilities.
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He joined an athletic club in which there were a large number of activities ranging from yoga to judo.
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The annual fee includes the subscription for student unions, athletic clubs , and other facilities.
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By launching the commercial scheme in the guise of an athletic club it falls within the rules of the Amateur Athletic Association.
competition
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They want the television to have athletic competitions with the world record holders there for the finals.
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What is more Big Government than legislating effort in athletic competition ?
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As editor of Running magazine in the early 1980s, he commissioned Thompson to report on an athletic competition in Hawaii.
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The athletic competition was without question some of the best in Olympic history.
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And in the face of a challenge far greater than athletic competition , she never lost her composure.
department
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The Oregon-based shoe giant has close ties to the university and its athletic department .
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It is how programs are viewed by their own athletic departments and the university administrations that fund them.
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It is a time of much excitement for the athletic department at Cal State Northridge.
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The athletic department rejected the initial request.
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Suppose the athletic department posts an even higher deficit than usual?
director
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On Monday, Stanford athletic director Ted Leland issued the written apology in response to numerous complaints about the performance.
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Jody had never been a head coach, but the athletic director at Oregon felt she had it in her.
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The brother is the athletic director at Lincoln High School....
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The athletic director renewed his efforts to force the university to remove the sculpture.
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The five-year extension takes Mathews through the 2002-2003 season, athletic director Bill Hogan said.
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He is offensive coordinator and acting athletic director at South Mountain High.
field
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BThe incident was witnessed by 25 children playing football in a nearby athletic field .
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The area, they argued, could better be used for athletic fields .
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Tops on the list of cuts: lighting for athletic fields .
performance
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Scenes linking tobacco or spirits consumption with improved athletic performance or business success will in future be illegal.
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This is a good habit to acquire to gain optimal athletic performance .
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Some coaches believe that stretching before exercise reduces the chances of injury and helps athletic performance .
program
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When he was at Montclair Prep, rules violations resulted in the entire athletic program being placed on probation.
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Let the kids sell themselves the way the schools peddle their athletic programs .
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And so can schoolchildren who volunteer to participate in athletic programs and whose expectation of privacy in the locker room is diminished.
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Audit results for Lamar and Texas Southern showed athletic programs at each school were losing about $ 300, 000 a year.
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The investigation found none on the coaching or athletic program staff was involved.
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Some athletic programs already use biofeedback.
scholarship
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Ian Taylor, right, and Matthew Mulroy have won athletic scholarships to study for degrees and play soccer in Pennsylvania.
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Female athletes, the survey found, received a little more than a third of the money spent on all athletic scholarships .
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Then they went off to college, many on athletic scholarships .
shoe
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Do you know when the first athletic shoe for kids were made?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He can play any sport, he's naturally athletic .
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her two athletic teenage daughters
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If you want me to play, I will, but I'm not very athletic .
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the athletic department
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was a true champion, a man among men, known for his kindness as well as athletic prowess.
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He was clever, but disinclined to distinguish himself in study, athletic but lazy, honest but argumentative.
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It is a time of much excitement for the athletic department at Cal State Northridge.
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She had always been defined by her athletic ability, and without it she was lost.
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That was because he was athletic .
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The scenario of a soldier showing supreme athletic prowess in the name of his country was how de Coubertin imagined the Games.
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Years of dictatorship also meant that officials in athletic circles had very little grasp on reality.