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/ˈæθlˌit/ Listen

noun

Athlete n.

(Antiq.) One who contended for a prize in the public games of ancient Greece or Rome.

Any one trained to contend in exercises requiring great physical agility and strength; one who has great activity and strength; a champion.

One fitted for, or skilled in, intellectual contests; as, athletes of debate.

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Etymology of 'Athlete'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Athlete" Quotes from Famous Books

... said that she was glad to meet him. She looked like a spirit of the woods, on a day when red buds and white blossoms are mingled; she was not handsome, but striking, fresh, and with an early morning brightness in her eyes; she was an untrained athlete of the farm, ready to put a back-log into the yawning fire-place or to choke a greedy calf off from its mother. She had no manners and was shy; and, without knowing how to play with a man's affection, was coy. Lyman looked into her eyes and thought of the bluish ...

— Old Ebenezer • Opie Read

... tall and slim, with a rather military carriage. His face was clean-shaven save for a small straw-colored moustache, which showed up almost white against the bronze of his face. He was more of an athlete than a student, and this was one reason why Juliet was fond of him. She had seen so much of literary circles that she always vowed she would marry a man who never opened a book. Cuthbert nearly fulfilled this requirement, as he read little, save ...

— The Secret Passage • Fergus Hume

... cujus lacertos exercitatio expressit; idem certamini paratior. Nunquam vero species ab utilitate dividitur. Sed hoc quidem discernere, modici judicii est. Quinct. lib. 8. (A horse with narrow flanks looks more comely; It also moves faster. An athlete whose muscles have been developed by training presents a handsome appearance; he is also better prepared for the contest. Attractive appearance is invariably associated with efficient functioning. Yet it takes no ...

— A Treatise of Human Nature • David Hume

... they submitted to many rigid rules. By frequent anointing, rubbing, and bathing, they rendered their bodies very supple. The trainer, or teacher in the palaestra, was termed xystarch. He was himself the Nestor of the "ring." The food of the athlete was mainly beef and pork. The latter, we believe, is excluded from the diet-list of the modern prize-fighter. Of their particular rules of living and "getting into condition" we know but little. Before being allowed to contend, they were subjected to a strict examination ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, No. 19, May, 1859 • Various

... as easy a feat as might be supposed, even for a rather well trained and hardened athlete like ...

— Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis • H. Irving Hancock

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