athletics vs pursuit

athletics

noun
  • Physical activities such as sports and games requiring stamina, fitness and skill. 

  • A group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country and racewalking. 

pursuit

noun
  • A hobby or recreational activity, done regularly. 

  • A discipline in track cycling where two opposing teams start on opposite sides of the track and try to catch their opponents. 

  • The act of pursuing. 

How often have the words athletics and pursuit occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )