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as in gymnastics
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as in sport
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for athletics
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The Pink Invitational has become the largest gymnastics fundraising event in the United States, now topping 116 teams.—
Stephanie Stahl,
CBS News,
6 Mar. 2026 -
Chesney’s tour New UCLA football coach Bob Chesney continues to tour the Bruins’ dominant spring programs, visiting women’s basketball, tennis, gymnastics and water polo.—
Steve Galluzzo,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Mar. 2026
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By December of that year, the company—run by individuals with no evident track record in global sports management—had secured a powerful contract with the Argentine Football Association.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
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Art Dlugach, a longtime sports producer for KPIX in San Francisco, died Thursday morning in Texas, surrounded by his family after a brief illness.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
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Over an ebullient little bouncy bit of house, an aerobics instructor encourages movement as Idehen encourages Movement politics.—
Jesse Dorris,
Pitchfork,
25 Mar. 2026
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And water aerobics for senior women descends into a bizarre request.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
15 Mar. 2026
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Outside the arena, the NCAA March Madness Fan Fest drew crowds with music, food and activities, adding to the tournament atmosphere.—
Kenny Choi,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
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His points were the most by a Texas player in an NCAA Tournament game since Kevin Durant scored 30 against USC in the second round of the 2007 tournament.—
Janie McCauley,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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One of the two women's boxing gold medalists at the center of the gender controversy in Paris, Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan, has passed her gene test and can return to competition, the World Boxing governing body said last week.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
26 Mar. 2026
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The Sora rollback is part of a broader shift within OpenAI, once the undisputed frontrunner in the AI race that now faces serious competition from rivals such as Anthropic and Google.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
26 Mar. 2026
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Back again #bodybuilding #training #wrestling.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
22 Mar. 2026
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Schwarzenegger already was a bodybuilding legend when moved to California from his native Austria during the late 1960s to pursue an acting career.—
Erik Pedersen,
Deadline,
3 Mar. 2026
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The program had gone 6-24 in the previous two seasons, but Stewart’s first team won 10 games and the program steadily improved en route to qualifying for the then-32-team 1976 NCAA tourney.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
28 Mar. 2026
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More, the coaches of the last three title-winning teams (Florida’s Todd Golden and Hurley) all come from the current crop of whippersnappers, as do the leaders of each 1-seed in this tourney.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
26 Mar. 2026
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And unusual activity in Gary's backyard.—
Peter Van Sant,
CBS News,
22 Mar. 2026
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Schrodinger basin, a large impact crater near the moon’s south pole, shows evidence of geologically recent volcanic activity.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 Mar. 2026
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“Athletics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/athletics. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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