athlétisme

Definitions of athlétisme
  1. noun
    a game involving athletic activity
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    hockey, hockey sur glace
    a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled sticks
    water-polo
    a game played in a swimming pool by two teams of swimmers who try to throw an inflated ball into the opponents' goal
    jeux de plein air
    an athletic game that is played outdoors
    jeux sur court
    an athletic game played on a court
    golf
    a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes
    jeu d'anneaux
    a game in which iron rings (or open iron rings) are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it
    jeux sur terrain
    an outdoor game played on a field of specified dimensions
    badminton
    a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net
    tennis
    a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court
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    jeu
    a contest with rules to determine a winner
    pratique du sport
    an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
  2. noun
    participating in athletic sports performed on a running track or on the field associated with it
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    saut
    the act of participating in an athletic competition in which you must jump
    saut en longueur
    the act of jumping as far as possible from a running start
    type of:
    pratique du sport
    an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
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