Fuerte, en buena forma y hábil para el deporte.
Physically strong, fit and good at sports.
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See how the word “atlético” is used in sentences
Tiene un cuerpo atlético por sus años de natación. — She has an athletic build from years of swimming.
Es más atlético de lo que parece. — He is more athletic than he looks.
¿Estás lo bastante atlético para una caminata larga? — Are you athletic enough for a long hike?
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Download the app for free Spanish vocabulary testTwo neighbouring words do most of the work this one gets credited with. For «fit» in the everyday sense Spanish says estar en forma, not ser atlético; and someone who plays sport is un deportista, where English would happily say an athlete. Atlético describes the build and the aptitude — un cuerpo atlético, un chico atlético — and reads a little like a line in a profile.
Watch the noun behind it. El atletismo is track and field specifically, not sport in general, so «he studies athletics» is not estudia atletismo. And if you have met Atlético in a football club's name — Atlético de Madrid, Club Atlético Boca Juniors — that is this adjective frozen into a proper noun, with nothing to say about the players' physiques.
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