0 the general name for a particular group of sports in which people compete, including running, jumping, and throwing: --
Girls who participate in high school athletics are three times more likely to graduate than those who don’t.
Athletics, swimming, camping, rock climbing, sailing and so on seem to be an excuse to expose oneself to stimuli from largely natural causes, to which one can respond.
In the case of athletics the regression is still positive, but only just and certainly markedly less so than was the case in either 1948 or 1956.
It would seem, then, that physical and physiological factors may be less important in influencing male/female differences in performance at swimming than at track athletics.
However, the son had developed his own interest in athletics, and the father showed little interest in or knowledge of the son's achievements in this field.
In none of these cases is there a systematic exercise of choice on the part of the empowered, let alone anything in the way of social athletics.
Outside the walls of this differentiated set of educational arrangements, there arose a great variety of youth clubs, social service groups, competitive athletics, social service organizations, and religious groups.
However, it was also assigned to individuals who had special skills, prowess in athletics, storytelling abilities, or exceptional piety.
Both reviewers of this research noted that cer tain professions are simultaneously age- and gender-segregated, such as professional athletics or stock exchange work.
