athletics

Also known as light athletics, track and field, sport of athletics

sports involving running, jumping, throwing and walking

AI overview

Athletics is a sport that includes running, jumping, throwing, and walking competitions. It matters because it's one of the most fundamental and accessible forms of physical competition, with events that test speed, strength, endurance, and technique.

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Encyclopedic overview

Pictogram for Athletics at the Summer Olympics

Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping and throwing. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross-country running, and race walking.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “athletics” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.