sports medicine

noun

: a field of medicine concerned with the prevention and treatment of injuries and disorders that are related to participation in sports

Examples of sports medicine in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Photo by Ian Maule/Getty Images Jesse Morse, a sports medicine physician who has grown very popular on X for weighing in on sports injuries, wrote a post with his opinion about Kittle. —Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025

James Gladstone, the chief of sports medicine at Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine, told me that tennis resembles high-intensity interval training, which has been shown to improve cognitive function and memory in healthy older adults. —Alexandra Moe, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2025

Wenger is also a family medicine and sports medicine physician in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, who regularly works with people on GLP-1s. —Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025

Ramsey Nijem is director/sports performance and Bill Cowgill associate director/ sports medicine. —Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 16 Aug. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1952, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for sports medicine

• biomedicine
• telemedicine

Kids Definition

sports medicine

noun

: a field of medicine concerned with the prevention and treatment of injuries and disorders that are related to participation in sports

Medical Definition

sports medicine

noun

ˈspō(ə)rts-, ˈspȯ(ə)rts- 

: a medical specialty concerned with the prevention and treatment of injuries and disorders that are related to participation in sports