track and field
a sport performed indoors or outdoors and made up of several events, as running, pole-vaulting, shot-putting, and broad-jumping.
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Other definitions for track-and-field (2 of 2)
of, relating to, or participating in the sports of running, pole-vaulting, broad-jumping, etc.: a track-and-field athlete.
Origin of track-and-field
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How to use track and field in a sentence
Much like an ordinary wheelchair is a conduit for independence rather than a confining collection of metal, a racing wheelchair is not what makes any track and field athlete great.
Why Wheelchair Racers Outpace Olympic Distance Runners — But Not Sprinters | John Loeppky | August 23, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightAs the news began to spread late Thursday night, the track and field world expressed varying degrees of shock that one of its brightest stars might not be able to compete on the sporting world’s biggest stage.
Sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson suspended one month after marijuana test, putting Olympics in doubt | Adam Kilgore, Rick Maese | July 2, 2021 | Washington PostShe received text updates from her boyfriend, Jordan Carpenter, the head men’s cross-country and track and field coach at Pomona-Pitzer in California, and from running coach Richard Hansen, a chiropractor with a nearby office.
An Olympic hopeful hadn’t run a race since the Boulder shooting. Her return was a personal best. | Cindy Boren | May 14, 2021 | Washington PostLater in life, she worked as a track and field coach and wrote books.
Tamara Press, Soviet Olympic champion whose gender was questioned, dies at 83 | News Services | May 7, 2021 | Washington PostFormer track and field athlete So Takei was among many people who spent the early hours of Monday glued to a screen watching — and tweeting — as the dramatic final round unfolded.
After sleepless night, golf-mad Japan celebrates Matsuyama’s Masters triumph | Simon Denyer, Julia Mio Inuma | April 12, 2021 | Washington Post
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