: a player (as in soccer or ice hockey) in a wing position
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Edmonton’s left-wing tweaks have two rugged wingers (Kane and Frederic) taking regular shifts and making life miserable for opponents.—Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 21 May 2025 The winger has had a very mixed season, unable to find the spark which ignited his game last season, and that hasn’t gone unnoticed.—Harry De Cosemo, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025 Sisters Alyssa and Gisele Thompson, who started their second senior national team match together last month, were also called up but this time with Gisele, a defender, making the roster as a winger.—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2025 The Panthers’ star winger, wrapping up his first season with his new team after the blockbuster trade a summer earlier sent him to Florida from the Calgary Flames, put up a Herculean effort in the series — a four-game Panthers sweep — on the way to reaching the Stanley Cup Final.—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 20 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for winger
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