athlete

IPA: ˈæθɫit

A participant in a group of sporting activities which includes track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking.
(US, Canada) A person who actively participates in physical sports, especially with great skill; a sportsperson.
An exceptionally physically fit person.

Examples of "athlete" in Sentences

Maiming an able bodied athlete is a lot easier than prescribing performance enhancing drugs.
I know it's golf so the term athlete is debateable but what about Curtis Strange. sure had me fooled.
The African-American athlete is expected to act docile and not question the establishment even if wronged.
So what do you call the athlete who has no intention of waking up at 5 a.m. to train but who still wants to win?
The screen cuts from a routine to a clip of a sportscaster interviewing the jump roper, using the word athlete to describe him.
The ideal of the student athlete is part of the branding used by the NCAA and contributes to the overall marketability of these sports.
Separating the athlete from the school would bring an end to major college sports as the bond between the team and school weakens anddies.
Does one believe that the Black athlete is so much superior to the white athlete that absence of discrimination 100% of all professional athletes would be black?
In many cases, there is an athlete from a poor family, whose talent is enough for a scholarship, which is his chance to get a college degree and “move up in the world”.