Usually means: Physically strong, skilled in sports.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word athletic:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. athletic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. athletic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. athletic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. athletic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. athletic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Athletic, athletic: Wordnik
  7. athletic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Athletic, athletic: Wiktionary
  9. athletic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. athletic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. athletic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. athletic: Dictionary.com
  13. athletic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Athletic, The Athletic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Athletic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. athletic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. athletic: Rhymezone
  18. Athletic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. athletic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. athletic: Free Dictionary
  21. athletic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. athletic: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. athletic: Merriam-Webster.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. athletic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. athletic: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. athletic: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See athletically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (not comparable) Having to do with athletes.
adjective:  Physically active.
adjective:  Having a muscular, well developed body, being in shape.
adjective:  An attribute of a motion or play which requires fine physical ability.
adjective:  (video games) Of a level in a Super Mario game: with an emphasis on platforming challenge, often involving precise jumps between floating platforms above a bottomless pit, and having upbeat background music.
noun:  A muscular, large–boned person, in the typology of Ernst Kretschmer.
noun:  (baseball) A player on the team Oakland Athletics.
noun:  (soccer, uncountable) Short for Athletic Club, a Spanish professional club more often known in English as Athletic Bilbao.

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