Definition of athlete
:a person who is trained or skilled in exercises, sports, or games requiring physical strength, agility, or stamina
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Athletes from around the world will be competing at the Olympics.
She was quite an athlete as a child.
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The donation is the largest of many contributions by Houston’s sports teams and athletes in recent days.
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Besides his ability to handle multiple assignments on the football field, Neville also participates as a three-sport athlete.
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In the months after Yordano Ventura died in a car crash on a mountainous road in the Dominican Republic, the Royals sought to educate their players on the dangers and risks involved with being a professional athlete.
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The eight women do their thing on the Sunday night series while their star athlete men — be they boyfriends, baby daddies, husbands or exes — do their thing on the field.
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Most of the people think the celebrities and athletes are kind of dabbling here and there.
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LeBron James has had a hair transplant, and other athletes.
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The action of the Cleveland Browns players is the largest anthem protest in the league thus far since the protests began last season, but DeValve isn't the first White athlete to act as an ally.
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There can be no pre-enrollment contact between athlete and coach.
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Origin and Etymology of athlete
Middle English, from Latin athleta, from Greek athlētēs, from athlein to contend for a prize, from athlon prize, contest
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