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athletic

adjective as in agile; prepared to participate in sports

adjective as in relating to sports

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At 27, Jake Paul was young enough and athletic enough to see off a 58-year-old Mike Tyson who was well past his best before the turn of millennium, and maybe well before that.

From BBC

Paul, 27, is a boxing novice but was too young and too athletic.

From BBC

As I watch him strike the trophy pose again, I shake my head to drive away thoughts of his athletic body deteriorating before my eyes.

“Some people just have that incredible ability to make their bodies learn how to do athletic things,” said Clark, now an assistant at The Bishop’s School in La Jolla.

The conference switch is expected to bring in tens of millions of dollars in additional revenue annually to a debt-ridden athletic department while also preventing the Bruins from having to consider eliminating any Olympic sports.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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