How to Use track-and-field in a Sentence

track-and-field

adjective

• The middle schooler competes on girls' cross-country and track-and-field teams.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 7 Apr. 2023
• The start of track-and-field events mark the unofficial halfway point of the Games.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 27 July 2024
• The organizers had moved the speech from a smaller venue to a track-and-field complex as big as three football fields.
  — Evan Osnos, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
• Emerging actress Jeon So-young takes on the role of Se-ah, a promising track-and-field athlete.
  — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• The entire track-and-field team, boys and girls, consists of about 30 participants, half of whom are in middle school.
  — Josh Moore, The Courier-Journal, 1 June 2023
• His interest in discus led him to become the track-and-field coach at Camelback High School.
  — Elena Santa Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 20 Feb. 2023
• Baynton, like a true competitor, arrived in track-and-field gear, complete with extremely small running shorts that showed off his long, lean legs.
  — Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 12 June 2026
• Tartan track is sort of the track-and-field version of Astroturf , originally designed for horse tracks.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2024
• Rather, Jackson said that her daughter is a gifted track-and-field athlete hoping to follow in her father's footsteps.
  — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 16 Oct. 2023
• President Barack Obama often used a track-and-field metaphor to talk about the presidency.
  — Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
• Landmark Christian freshman Melanie Doggett’s performance at the state track-and-field meet set the world ablaze last week.
  — Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 18 May 2026
• He’s known in the community both for his high school and college track-and-field career, as well as his work advocating for learning and helping those in need.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2026
• Italian track-and-field athletes born to Senegalese or Nigerian immigrants have medalled in each of the last two Olympics.
  — Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 30 May 2026
• The online posting from Libby called out a transgender athlete who competed in the state's track-and-field championship.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 20 May 2025
• The model was originally introduced in 1964 for the Tokyo Olympics as a track-and-field shoe.
  — Riley Jones, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• In addition to her acting work, Hottle was an athlete and competed on Texas School for the Deaf’s track-and-field team.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 21 July 2026
• Girls in Campbell’s softball and track-and-field programs allegedly changed in the bleachers by a practice field in open view, holding up jackets to cover each other.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
• Even the champion will admit being a full-time athlete wasn’t a given, despite coming from a family of Olympic track-and-field competitors.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 15 July 2024
• In Rio, the runner was an anxious up-and-comer, the youngest American track-and-field Olympian since 1972.
  — Katie Abel, Footwear News, 1 June 2026
• During her track-and-field career, Felix has won 11 Olympic medals, seven of which are gold, and has a record 20 medals from world championships.
  — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• Staten Island’s Ocean Breeze athletic complex is one of the few rec centers in the city with a full indoor track-and-field facility.
  — The Editors, Curbed, 16 Apr. 2026
• And this is the first year that men and women are competing in the same number of track-and-field events, after the IOC cut the men’s 50-kilometer race walk.
  — Maggie Mertens, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2024
• In addition to the international travel her plan requires, heroine and track-and-field star Mizuki must cross-dress to attend the all-boys school where her high-jumping beau studies.
  — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2026
• Humanoid robot-athletes competed in dance battles, martial arts, track-and-field events and soccer over the weekend in a three-day competition hosted in Beijing.
  — Alex Sherman, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2025
• The annual track-and-field season has just begun, and there is a slew of events between now—April—and the Games’ opening ceremony on the Seine in July.
  — Maya Singer, Vogue, 9 July 2024
• Then, a 67-year-old man took to the field and stood at the top of the throwing circle, stopping the elementary school track-and-field event in British Columbia, Starr said.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• A couple of years ago, Ohanian founded Athlos, a series of women’s track-and-field events showcasing some of America’s best athletes.
  — Alex Sherman, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2025
• The act then gave way to a track-and-field tribute that included a reimagining of the Course des Cafés and a flurry of models in clothes that nodded to the period entre deux guerres in various ways.
  — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 24 June 2024
• Paralympic track-and-field star and Lululemon ambassador Hunter Woodhall shares what his global travels are like wearing two prosthetic legs.
  — Hunter Woodhall and Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2024
• Allyson Felix, a track-and-field star with 11 Olympic medals to her name, brought the first-ever Olympic nursery to the athletes village, in partnership with Pampers.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2024