Difference between Athletics and Sport

What is the difference between Athletics and Sport?

Athletics as a noun is competitive activities such as sports and games requiring stamina, fitness and skill; particularly those activities known in the united states as track and field. while Sport as a noun is any athletic activity that uses physical skills, often competitive.

Athletics

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Competitive activities such as sports and games requiring stamina, fitness and skill; particularly those activities known in the United States as track and field.

Example sentence: Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.

Sport

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: suitable for use in athletic activities

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to amuse oneself, to playto mock or tease, treat lightly, toy withto wear (something) with prideto bear a mark or wound with embarrassment

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Any athletic activity that uses physical skills, often competitive.A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirable manner, a good sport.A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.A sportsman; a gambler, one who consorts with less than reputable people, including prostitutes.An amorous dalliance.

Example sentence: It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

We hope you now know whether to use Athletics or Sport in your sentence.

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