Synonyms for athlete
ˈæθ lit; æθˈlɛt ɪk; æθˈlɛt ɪks; ˈæθ əˌlit; ˌæθ əˈlɛt ɪk; ˌæθ əˈlɛt ɪksath·lete

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1. athletenoun

   Synonyms:
   sportsperson

2. athletenoun

   A participant in a group of sporting activities which includes track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking.

   Synonyms:
   sportsperson

3. athletenoun

   A person who actively participates in physical sports, possibly highly skilled in sports. (Known in British English as a sportsperson.)

   Synonyms:
   sportsperson

4. athletenoun

   An exceptionally physically fit person.

   Synonyms:
   sportsperson

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1. athlete, jocknoun

   a person trained to compete in sports

   Synonyms:
   supporter, suspensor, jock, jockstrap, athletic supporter

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1. athletenoun

   Synonyms:
   combatant, champion, contender for victory

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1. athletenoun

   Synonyms:
   gymnast, pancratist

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1. List of paraphrases for "athlete":

   athletes, linebacker, sport, sports, sportsman, sportif, sporting, jock, athletic

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1. Venus Williams:

   It's never easy, but anything worth having is usually something you have to work for, i've definitely faced unexpected challenges, but I'm not going to be the first or the last person or athlete to overcome health issues to be their best so I look at it as something that hopefully encourages other people who are having chronic health issues.

2. Alan Krause:

   A great athlete on a regular bicycle won't top 45 miles an hour in this contest.

3. Canada Soccer:

   Christine Sinclair is a once-in-a-generation athlete that has been at the heart of Canadian sport for over 20 years but what she accomplished in the past 10 years has changed the sport forever in our country, christine is the Canada Soccer Player of the Decade and unquestionably one of the greatest and most-loved athletes Canada has ever watched.

4. Tom Pennington/Getty Images O’Neal:

   She’s probably the greatest athlete ever to come out of LSU sports. Darron Cummings/AP Angel Reese heard it here first.

5. Mark Rushbrook:

   We came together on this project, contributing a lot of ideas from different sources and developed it into what it is, building upon Vaughn's original idea of what he'd like to do for an all electric drift car and turning it into this extreme all-around athlete to do road courses and drag racing and everything else together.