athletic
adj.adj. strong, fit, and good at sports. You use this to describe someone who looks like they exercise often or has a body built for physical activity.
adj. physically strong, fit, and active; possessing the skills or physical build required for competitive sports.
She is very athletic and plays three different sports.
The coach is looking for athletic students who can run fast and jump high for the track team.
While he lacked formal training in dance, his naturally athletic build and coordination allowed him to master the difficult choreography with surprising ease.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-tromder. Ancient Greek ἆθλον (âthlon) Ancient Greek ᾱ̓θλέω (āthléō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek ἀθλητής (athlētḗs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek ᾱ̓θλητῐκός (āthlētĭkós)bor. Latin āthlēticuslbor. Middle French athletiquebor. English athletic Borrowed from Middle French athletique and Latin āthlēticus, from Ancient Greek ἀθλητικός (athlētikós, “relating to an athlete”), from ἀθλητής (athlētḗs, “athlete”): equivalent to athlete + -ic. For more, see athlete. The Super Mario sense is effectively a reborrowing of Japanese アスレチック (asurechikku, “obstacle course”), originally borrowed from English athletic; this sense was itself originally a clipping of the genericized wasei eigo trademark フィールドアスレチック (fīrudo asurechikku, “Field Athletic”).
Typically used as a gradable adjective that can be modified by degree adverbs like 'very' or 'extremely'.