Which definition should be used for the "Athletics" tag?

Question

The word "Athletics" has different connotations in America and the rest of the world.

In the U.S.A., "athletics" implies all competitive sports, i.e. a collegiate Athletics Department. In the rest of the (English-speaking) world, it covers the specific set of sports known in America as "Track and Field", hence the international governing body name IAAF or International Association of Athletics Federations.

(In some languages, there's a distinction between "light athletics," i.e. track and field, and "heavy athletics," i.e. weightlifting.)

At any rate: which definition should we use for the athletics tag? At the time of asking, we had one question for each definition in the tag.

This seems to overlap with How should the tag "Football" be used, but I don't think these tags should be synonyms.

Answer 1

There two possible scenarios I see.

1. We use it as a synonym of track-and-field and retag the existing atheletics to instead be athletic-ability
2. We use it to as an antonym of strategy (under the guise that sports have two primary elements: athletics and strategy.)

I think the first scenario would cause the least confusion, but the second also holds some ground. I'll have to give it more thought before I could say which I thought was better than the other, but I think those are the two major options.