athlete
Pluralathletes
- 1A person who plays sports, especially someone who is very good at them.
Like a chef who is skilled in the kitchen, but skilled at sports instead.
Every athlete on the team trained hard before the big game.
Professional athletes often practice for many hours each day.
Similarsportsperson, sportsman, sportswoman, player, competitor
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- 2A person who is very fit and strong, even if they do not play sports.
Like a machine that still works perfectly after years of hard use.
My grandmother is a real athlete for her age, hiking every weekend.
He's such an athlete that he can run up ten flights of stairs without stopping.
- 3Someone who competes in track and field events like running, jumping, throwing, and racewalking.
Like a runner or jumper at a school sports day, competing to be fastest or best.
The young athlete trained for both the long jump and the 200-meter sprint.
Several athletes lined up at the start of the cross country race.
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Origin
It came from Latin "āthlēta" and from a Greek word meaning "to compete for a prize." The root Greek word meant "prize" or "competition."