the AAA
the Amateur Athletics Association: a British organization for athletes (=runners etc) that organizes sports competitions
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the Amateur Athletics Association: a British organization for athletes (=runners etc) that organizes sports competitions
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someone who is good at sports, especially athletics, and takes part in sports competitions
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sports events in which people compete against each other in running races, jumping, and throwing things. The American word is track and field
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a sports event that is not a race and that an athlete does alone, not as part of a team. The long jump and the javelin are field events.
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an organized event where people from many countries compete in different sports such as running, jumping, and swimming
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a sports event in which people try to jump over a bar that can be raised higher after each jump
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a sports event in which you throw a heavy metal ball called the shot as far as you can
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a type of race in which each person swims, rides a bicycle, and runs over very long distances
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a sport in which you first jump forwards on one leg, jump again on the other leg, and jump a third time using both legs
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