aquatics

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Aquatics are the sports carried on in the water. The aquatics centre, aquatics programme, compete in aquatics.

It is the umbrella term the governing bodies use, covering swimming, diving, water polo, artistic swimming and open water. It takes a singular verb, and it is the word on the building rather than the one anybody says at the poolside.

Definitions of aquatics

1nounaquaticsSports carried on in the water.C1
“The new aquatics centre has a diving pool and a fifty-metre pool.”

aquatics is a group of sports.

Where it comes from

Latin
aquāticus
Middle French
aquatique
English
aquatic
English, today
aquatics

Built from

aqua · Latin — water

aquatic Borrowed from Middle French aquatique, from Latin aquāticus. Borrowed from Middle French aquatique (“living in water”), from Latin aquaticus (“relating to water”), from aqua (“water”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Swimming & Diving

Practise this word

aquatics in the wild

World Aquatics currently oversees competition in six aquatics sports: swimming, diving, high diving, artistic swimming, water polo, and open water swimming.
World Aquatics
Asia Aquatics, formerly Asia Swimming Federation, oversees international aquatics competitions in Asia, and is affiliated to the Olympic Council of Asia and to World Aquatics.
Asia Aquatics
The city had previously hosted the 2015 Summer Universiade aquatics events in the same venues.
2019 World Aquatics Championships

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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