nonathlete
noun
non·ath·lete
ˌnän-ˈath-ˌlēt 
nonstandard -ˈa-thə-ˌlēt
: a person who is not an athlete
an obstacle course too demanding for a nonathlete
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And in a small but intriguing 2015 study, physician Helmuth Haslacher and his colleagues at the Medical University of Vienna in Austria compared the mental health and genomes of 55 elderly marathon runners and endurance bicyclists with those of 58 nonathletes.
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Ferris Jabr, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2017
This is not the first such test for Ms. Goldschmidt, 47, who is the first nonathlete to run U.S. Ski & Snowboard in at least a quarter-century.
—Dan Fitzpatrick, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2022
Then, by scanning obituaries and old yearbooks, the researchers narrowed the group to 300 athletes who played contact sports and 450 nonathletes.
—Sabine Galvis, Science | AAAS, 3 July 2019
But even at schools where athletics is a loss leader and in sports that don’t draw many paying customers, competitors ought to be able to take advantage of whatever market value their skills might have, just as student nonathletes do.
—Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 29 Oct. 2019
Salazar is arguably the most famous nonathlete ever to receive a doping sanction.
—David Epstein, ProPublica, 1 Oct. 2019
Nine percent of athletes had evidence of CTE, compared with just over 3% of nonathletes.
—Sabine Galvis, Science | AAAS, 3 July 2019
The program also welcomes nonathletes and even adults, because the universal lessons of mindfulness, focus and resilience apply to everyone.
—René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 13 June 2019
The tests gave me, a nonathlete, a taste of what the elite crew teams at my school must have experienced: the glory of beyond-regional success, along with the more enduring satisfaction of having been in it together.
—Caitlin MacY, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2019
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Ferris Jabr, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2017
This is not the first such test for Ms. Goldschmidt, 47, who is the first nonathlete to run U.S. Ski & Snowboard in at least a quarter-century.
—Dan Fitzpatrick, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2022
Then, by scanning obituaries and old yearbooks, the researchers narrowed the group to 300 athletes who played contact sports and 450 nonathletes.
—Sabine Galvis, Science | AAAS, 3 July 2019
But even at schools where athletics is a loss leader and in sports that don’t draw many paying customers, competitors ought to be able to take advantage of whatever market value their skills might have, just as student nonathletes do.
—Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 29 Oct. 2019
Salazar is arguably the most famous nonathlete ever to receive a doping sanction.
—David Epstein, ProPublica, 1 Oct. 2019
Nine percent of athletes had evidence of CTE, compared with just over 3% of nonathletes.
—Sabine Galvis, Science | AAAS, 3 July 2019
The program also welcomes nonathletes and even adults, because the universal lessons of mindfulness, focus and resilience apply to everyone.
—René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 13 June 2019
The tests gave me, a nonathlete, a taste of what the elite crew teams at my school must have experienced: the glory of beyond-regional success, along with the more enduring satisfaction of having been in it together.
—Caitlin MacY, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2019
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“Nonathlete.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonathlete. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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