athlete
(æθliːt )
Word forms: athletes
1. countable noun B1+
An athlete is a person who does a sport, especially athletics, or track and field events.
Many top athletes find it hard, if not impossible to find real life again after retiring.
2. countable noun
You can refer to someone who is fit and athletic as an athlete.
I was no athlete.
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Collocations:
celebrity athlete champion athlete college athlete competitive athlete elite athlete endurance athlete famous athlete gifted athlete high-profile athlete incredible athlete individual athlete motivate an athlete outstanding athlete pro athlete professional athlete star athlete successful athlete talented athlete top athlete train an athlete wheelchair athlete world-class athlete young athlete
Let's deal with the best reason: you know of a celebrity athlete who can minister to your congregation.
Christianity Today
Additionally, maintained or increased athletic performance following negative news may help the celebrity athlete to maintain or quickly regain his/her credibility.
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He doesn't have the ego that a lot of celebrity athletes have.
Times, Sunday Times
But can a world champion athlete indulge herself ?
Times, Sunday Times
It doesn't suggest inspiring images-we don't think of a brave soldier or a courageous leader or a champion athlete.
Christianity Today
He was a champion athlete and dancer.
The Times Literary Supplement
Both sales offer splendid jewellery, including gold oak and myrtle wreaths for champion athletes and musicians.
Times, Sunday Times
It has produced many champion athletes, as well as hosting several basketball tournaments.
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He insisted that he would never use such language to describe a college athlete.
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He was an outstanding college athlete, and also was a sprinter and jumper for the track team.
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He was a multi-sport college athlete, playing halfback in football, forward in basketball, and the middle infield in baseball.
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Three years older than most members of the sophomore class, he was already a party member and a popular college athlete.
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For example, if one observes a college athlete, one makes predictions and assumptions about other college athletes based on that one observation.
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I am an accomplished pianist, as well as a competitive athlete.
Times, Sunday Times
The naturally competitive athlete then decided to take up running, in 2007, and has not looked back since.
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It was only with her last few steps as a competitive athlete that she found the greatness she had been incubating for 15 years of top-level competition.
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She was a competitive athlete from an early age.
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He was a competitive athlete, representing the school in a number of track and field events and playing on both the rugby and football teams.
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Thus, by these calculations, to deliver a final performance of an hour, an elite athlete or musician puts in 20,000 hours of practice.
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The disciplines of being an elite athlete were some benefit.
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She had no sort of life as an elite athlete: she couldn't even go to the cinema for fear of contracting an illness.
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However, everyone has the same food in their pantry as an elite athlete would eat.
Times, Sunday Times
In many ways, he has made that tricky crossover from elite athlete to cultural icon.
Times, Sunday Times
The typical endurance athlete can absorb only about 240-280 calories an hour from food.
Times, Sunday Times
One top gamer in his twenties had a physique similar to an endurance athlete.
The Sun
It was my fourth season as an amateur endurance athlete.
Times, Sunday Times
You may as well be trying to match an endurance athlete.
Times, Sunday Times
But endurance athletes don't tend to reach a peak until their late 20s or early 30s.
Times, Sunday Times
Every famous athlete knows that the cameras are always there.
Times, Sunday Times
That would be the appropriate response to a famous athlete coming out, if we were living in an ideal world.
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The sweat, dirt and oil that a famous athlete or gladiator scraped off was sold to fans in vials.
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His house contains memorabilia related to the famous athlete.
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His first move was to pour cash into adidas's worldwide marketing budget, enabling it to sponsor several famous athletes and ensure important brand exposure.
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You don't have to be a gifted athlete or super-fit to enjoy sports, you just need to find the right one.
The Sun
Quite clearly, there was a gifted athlete in their midst, but was he a sufficiently rounded rugby player?
Times, Sunday Times
The university also runs a gifted athlete programme.
Times, Sunday Times
I am not a gifted athlete.
Times, Sunday Times
That confusion caused her grades to slip and to withdraw from her talents as a gifted athlete.
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A question asked by every high-profile athlete, something for ever beyond control.
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Second, you have to be careful about suddenly making a judgment about a rule because a very high-profile athlete has fallen foul of it.
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No teams have withdrawn, but some high-profile athletes have opted not to compete.
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Other high-profile athletes have been conspicuous by their silence.
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High-profile athletes have also made tens of thousands from appearances in talent shows, which help to enhance their brands by giving them exposure to millions of viewers.
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He was an incredible athlete and a great reader of the game.
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First of all, he's an incredible athlete.
Times, Sunday Times
It was hard to explain what it meant to watch these incredible athletes working together.
The Times Literary Supplement
Congrats to our other incredible athletes, rowers and cyclists who won medals yesterday — and to all our competitors making the nation so proud.
The Sun
They not only have to be great sailors, they have to be incredible athletes.
Times, Sunday Times
The data did not reveal which group an individual athlete was in.
Times, Sunday Times
I believe he ensured the voice of the individual athlete was heard more sensitively and more loudly than ever before.
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An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time.
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He believed that each individual athlete was different and tailored different workout routines to different athletes.
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But ultimately it's an individual sport and individual athletes need to make their own decisions.
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Once, the honour or the pride and glory of winning gold for one's country would have been sufficient to motivate an athlete to make the supreme effort required.
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The coach has to motivate the athlete in every possible way.
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I always believed this problem was due to the fact that much of what motivates athletes was already given to them based on their potential.
Times, Sunday Times
First, there was his career as an outstanding athlete.
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An outstanding athlete, he was inducted into the school's hall of fame in 2004.
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He played both cricket and rugby, and was an outstanding athlete during his youth.
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However even though he was an outstanding athlete, he routinely clashed with the school's coaching staff and administrators.
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But his success hasn't always been tied to having outstanding athletes.
Houston Chronicle
Every baseball player and pro athlete will be using at least low levels of steroids.
Globe and Mail
It's not like being a pro athlete and coming back from a badly sprained ankle.
Globe and Mail
Are pro athlete salaries getting out of hand?
Houston Chronicle
Just try doing that today with pro athletes.
The Sun
My sons are not going to be pro athletes, and there's a high likelihood they won't play in college either.
Christianity Today
Just a professional athlete saying he feels pain, with no real way of showing the world his injury.
Times, Sunday Times
When you become a professional athlete you stop playing sport for fun.
Times, Sunday Times
Somewhere on the journey back he became a professional athlete, his youthful exuberance tempered by physical stress, his mind tougher, more calculating.
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A professional athlete, he also distinguished himself academically, securing twouniversity degrees.
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He's a professional athlete at 800m and 1,500m, events that were once much loved.
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In a profile on the school website he wrote that he had hopes, 'if my body will allow', of becoming a star athlete, or a chemical engineer.
Times, Sunday Times
But imagine how invincible you would feel as a star athlete fawned over by an adoring media and public?
Globe and Mail
She was a star athlete at school, a sprinter, but doesn't often get round to doing anything now.
Times, Sunday Times
In high school, he was better known for being a star athlete in football, baseball and basketball than as a musician.
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He becomes the school's star athlete, excelling as a wrestler and the quarterback of the football team.
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Every successful athlete has something of the sociopath, for winning can only be done at the expense of other people.
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They include a successful athlete who on three occasions recorded off-scores that had a less than a one-in-1,000 chance of being natural.
Times, Sunday Times
These circumstances are unsatisfactory; the suspicion that hangs over a successful athlete ruins sport as much as a positive test.
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With three titles, she was the championship's most successful athlete and became the youngest triple world champion.
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Besides the cheers of individual institutions there are some common to all, generally used to compliment some successful athlete or popular professor.
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But the accepted 'talented athlete' profile plays a part.
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Exceptions will be made only if a non-priority sport has an especially talented athlete with an outside chance of a medal who needs development aid.
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She said that his behaviour was usually outstanding, adding that he was an 'enthusiastic young learner' and a talented athlete.
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A talented athlete in his younger days, he was a keen rugby player in his twenties and an accomplished cricketer.
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Which talented athlete from any township, or indeed from any background, would not be inspired by such an event?
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I note that her schedule is that of a top athlete.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
What do top athletes do with their downtime?
The Sun (2012)
But I didn't care, because I was popular and one of my school's top athletes.
Christianity Today (2000)
Mission 2012, a €115 million (about 95 million) project to upgrade sports and leisure facilities, has attracted more than 16 federations to the region to train their athletes.
Times, Sunday Times
Yet herein we have a problem; there cannot be a head coach in the world who would be happy to be told how to train his athletes.
Times, Sunday Times
In this type of training the athlete accelerates and releases the weight into free space.
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At an early age, many coaches train their athletes to hurdle with both legs.
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Soon afterwards the torch was ambushed again - as a wheelchair athlete carried it out of a traffic tunnel.
The Sun
Once considered the fastest wheelchair athlete in 1995 though 1997.
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Wheelchair athletes, for example, typically travel with three chairs - one normal chair, one race chair and one spare.
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It was due to have 38,000 competitors but will now be limited to an elite field of 176 athletes and 30 wheelchair athletes.
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Wheelchair athletes competing in a sitting position.
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They would be used, for example, by a world-class athlete preparing for a race.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
There is a long list of rugby fast men who excelled as world-class athletes.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
What better way than to give them access to world-class venues, world-class athletes and world-class sport?
The Sun (2010)
A promising young athlete, he held ambitions of being a professional cyclist, but it wasn't to be.
Times, Sunday Times
The more help a young athlete can get, the better.
Times, Sunday Times
The judges told him to retake the dive, and under intense pressure the young athlete pulled it off.
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When coaches come across a gifted young athlete, they are not given to understating the case.
Times, Sunday Times
You are talking about great resilience from a very strong, young athlete.
The Sun
Translations:
Chinese: 运动员
Japanese: 運動選手