The phrase "athletic maneuvers" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe physical actions or techniques performed in sports or physical activities.
Example: "The gymnast executed a series of impressive athletic maneuvers during the competition."
Alternatives: "sporting techniques" or "physical skills".
Twelve soccer athletes performed athletic maneuvers in the laboratory and field during 2 sessions.
AN A.C.L. DOES NOT tear so much as it explodes, often during routine athletic maneuvers — landings from jumps, decelerations from sprints — that look innocuous until the athlete crumples to the ground.
He demonstrated some admirable technical chops during Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, easily conquering the double octaves and other athletic maneuvers of this popular showpiece.
Last year, a group of intellectual-property lawyers argued in an article in the National Law Journal that athletic maneuvers could and should be patented.
We do all these difficult athletic maneuvers, we compete, we're a team and the university declares us a sport, but people say we're cheerleaders and everyone thinks of the Dallas Cowboys' cheerleaders.
Many in Ms. Kang's troupe were no longer young — not 81, but up there — even if some of the more athletic maneuvers, like the gracefully posed mass onstage drumming, were turned over to the younger dancers.
Watching the United States in the relay is like watching Shaquille O'Neal take foul shots or watching Tim Tebow throw a football: a relatively easy athletic maneuver is turned into something almost unspeakable by someone who ought to have learned how to do it by now.
The fight for the spot in the 167-pound class of Greco-Roman wrestling has been marked by as much legal maneuvering as athletic skill.
The quick win came just days after Rousey was breaking up a fight between her dog, Mochi, and her roommate's dog and sustained a bite on the bottom of her foot that resulted in nine stitches and some careful maneuvering around athletic commission personnel to fight at all.
The AP called this "one of the slickest political maneuvers in international athletic history", and wrote that the Games would now be "like Hamlet without the celebrated Dane in the cast".
Jones's figure her strong, sleek, athletic body and the ways in which she maneuvers it both onstage and in the world around her informs his own artistry.
