Word Meanings - ATHLETICS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The art of training by athletic exercises; the games and sports of athletes.

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• ATHLETICISM
  The practice of engaging in athletic games; athletism.
• TRAINING
  The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training
• TRAINABLE
  Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.
• GAMESOME
  Gay; sportive; playful; frolicsome; merry. Shak. Gladness of the gamesome crowd. Byron. -- Game"some*ly, adv. -- Game"some*ness, n.
• TRAINER
  1. One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength. 2. A militiaman when called out for exercise or discipline. Bartlett.
• TRAIN DISPATCHER
  An official who gives the orders on a railroad as to the running of trains and their right of way.
• TRAINBEARER
  One who holds up a train, as of a robe.
• TRAIN
  To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape, by bending, lopping, or pruning; as, to train young trees. He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left. Jeffrey. (more info) 1. To draw along;
• TRAINY
  Belonging to train oil. Gay.
• SPORTSMAN
  One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes, etc.
• ATHLETICS
  The art of training by athletic exercises; the games and sports of athletes.
• GAMESTER
  1. A merry, frolicsome person. Shak. 2. A person who plays at games; esp., one accustomed to play for a stake; a gambler; one skilled in games. When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shak. 3.
• TRAIN OIL
  Oil procured from the blubber or fat of whales, by boiling.
• ATHLETIC
  1. Of or pertaining to athletes or to the exercises practiced by them; as, athletic games or sports. 2. Befitting an athlete; strong; muscular; robust; vigorous; as, athletic Celts. "Athletic soundness." South. -- Ath*let"ic*al*ly, adv.
• TRAINBAND
  A band or company of an organized military force instituted by James I. and dissolved by Charles II.; -- afterwards applied to the London militia. He felt that, without some better protection than that of the trainbands and Beefeaters, his palace
• TRAINEL
  A dragnet. Holland.
• SPORTSMANSHIP
  The practice of sportsmen; skill in field sports.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• UPTRAIN
  To train up; to educate. "Daughters which were well uptrained." Spenser.
• CORRIDOR TRAIN
  A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open.
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• RESTRAINEDLY
  With restraint. Hammond.
• SUPERSTRAIN
  To overstrain. Bacon.
• DETRAIN
  To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train. London Graphic.
• UNSTRAINED
  1. Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk. 2. Not forced; easy; natural; as, a unstrained deduction or inference. Hakewill.
• QUENOUILLE TRAINING
  A method of training trees or shrubs in the shape of a cone or distaff by tying down the branches and pruning.
• OLYMPIC GAMES; OLYMPIAN GAMES
  A modified revival of the ancient Olympian games, consisting of international athletic games, races, etc., now held once in four years, the first having been at Athens in 1896.
• EXPRESS TRAIN
  Formerly, a railroad train run expressly for the occasion; a special train; now, a train run at express or special speed and making few stops.
• CONTRAINDICATE
  To indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would seem to require. Contraindicating symptoms must be observed. Harvey.