(n.) One who contended for a prize in the public games of ancient Greece or Rome.
(n.) Any one trained to contend in exercises requiring great physical agility and strength; one who has great activity and strength; a champion.
(n.) One fitted for, or skilled in, intellectual contests; as, athletes of debate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
(2) In a comparative study 11 athletes and 11 untrained students were investigated at rest, of these 6 trained and 5 untrained individuals during exercise as well.
(3) During recovery, while the heart rate decreased and the RR interval variance increased, there was a relative increase in LF and a relative decrease in HF in normal subjects (either sedentary or athletic).
(4) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(5) "He's defined by being himself, by being smart, by being a good athlete," Goldwater said of Keller.
(6) "They haven't just got to be able to run like athletes," says Hall.
(7) #Tigers #Athletics @HunterFelt October 11, 2013 David Lengel (@LengelDavid) @HunterFelt Unless you're Yoenis Cespedes of course!
(8) The brightly lit ice palaces themselves are stunning, inside and out, and the sporting facilities have been rightly praised by almost all the athletes.
(9) However, the mean serum EPO concentrations of male and female athletes engaged in a variety of sports were not different from those of sedentary control subjects of both sexes (26.5-35.3 U.ml-1).
(10) Sudden death in healthy athletes is uncommon but, when it occurs, the primary mechanism is cardiovascular.
(11) Thus many athletes sustain dental-related injuries resulting in deformity and discomfort which may persist throughout their lives.
(12) He is big, strong, athletic, very quick and has got a fantastic leap on him," said McClaren.
(13) The increased volume of flowing blood and increased stroke volume in athletes probably allows for a reduction in flow velocity and thereby a reduction in kinetic energy.
(14) In Iten, I heard stories of athletes being told weeks in advance when to attend the testing centre in Eldoret.
(15) Many athletes, particularly female, are iron depleted, but true iron deficiencies are rare.
(16) Maximal power output was on average 81.1 W for the male population and varied from 65.8 W for class II athletes to 92.2 W for class LA.
(17) These results indicate that the increase in glucose storage by acute exercise is not systematically associated with an improved glucose homeostasis, suggesting that other adaptive mechanisms also contribute to the improvement of insulin sensitivity in endurance athletes.
(18) An echocardiographic evaluation of 77 members of a championship childhood swim team showed dimensional variations from normal in most athletes.
(19) Ballet dancers generated significantly less mechanical power than indoor soccer, basketball and bobsled athletes, while wrestlers generated significantly less power than indoor soccer and basketball athletes (all p less than 0.05).
(20) (GL) and M. deltoideus (D) were studied in 89 athletes practising 11 different sport events.
Bruiser
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, bruises.
(n.) A boxer; a pugilist.
(n.) A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The other is a 330lb bruiser who has admitted to smoking crack cocaine, "a lot of marijuana" and to an alcohol problem.
(2) Parliamentary byelections, which Hanna transformed into memorable TV fiestas in the Thatcher era, have become tepid and tedious since the bonhomous Belfast bruiser quit the BBC in 1987.
(3) 4.24pm BST BRUSSELS BRACED FOR BRUISING SUMMIT From Brussels, our Europe editor Ian Traynor reports that officials and diplomats are predicting a bit of a bruiser: Ian writes: Paris and Berlin presenting conflicting demands that boil down to a power grab by Berlin for control of other people's budgets and a bid by Paris to force Germany to shell out more quickly and more easily for bailouts and shoring up dodgy banks.
(4) Now, Henry might have a reputation for being a bruiser, but McCormack seemed to kick into Henry’s attempted pass as far as I could see from that challenge.
(5) Alan Johnson's reputation as a down-to-earth and good-natured bruiser will be sorely tested in his new job as shadow chancellor, co-ordinating Labour's opposition to the coalition's cuts.
(6) Compact and soft-spoken, Serwotka is from a slightly different mould than bruisers like the RMT's Bob Crow.
(7) Long before his embarrassing apology, the derision and invitations to "grow a pair" that greeted Nick Clegg's admission of emotional responses to music and literature, indicated – along with speculation about his controlling wife – limited interest in challenging the inflexible "big beast" and "bruiser" orthodoxies of political success.
(8) Although the received wisdom is that Sturgeon softens Salmond's bruiser image, Adam Tomkins, professor of law at Glasgow University and an independent adviser to the Scottish Conservative leader, Ruth Davidson, points out: "When Salmond put her in charge of the campaign in 2012, one reason was to close the gap in support for independence among women, and that has not shifted very much.
(9) The generals face accusations they cannot protect the country's borders, its military bases or their own street bruisers.
(10) Despite Balls's undoubted intellectual credentials his reputation as a political bruiser and Brown's attack dog worked against him during the leadership campaign.
(11) • The following correction was published on 29 January 2012: North by north-east: "Political bruiser with a robust approach to crime" (News) was wrong to say that if Lord Prescott were to run for police commissioner for Humberside he would be returning to his "native north-east".
(12) Diamante looked fantastic on a bloke, especially if you looked like a bit of a bruiser.
(13) O'Reilly, Fox's most popular news star and a best-selling author, claims he is the target of a politically motivated, $60m (£33.2m) extortion attempt by his accuser, 32-year-old Fox News producer Andrea Mackris, and her lawyer, a well-known legal bruiser, Benedict Morelli.
(14) That slightly undermined the Wolves' own understandable indignation when Wigan's second-row bruiser Harrison Hansen threw himself either recklessly or cynically at the legs of Stefan Ratchford when he was being held up by another Wigan defender – a possible example of the cannonball tackle that has caused much controversy in recent years.
(15) The famous five candidates have long fallen into habitual roles, but – maddening as it must be to the bruiser Balls and the outsider Abbott and the scouser Burnham – the fascination of the contest has generally and inevitably been the familial one to which it seems to have narrowed down, just about the oldest story line of all, and one which rarely finds a happy ending.
(16) Alas, Skyrim's bruiser would make mincemeat out of Friedrich's thoughtful ramblers.
(17) There’s a long way to go but, without Ofsted being there, I’ve no doubt standards will fall and we would go backwards, not forwards.” In his sometimes turbulent time at the inspectorate, he suggested parents should be fined if they do not turn up for parents’ evening; he said teachers who leave at 3pm should be paid less; he has backed schools that ban “inappropriate wearing” of full-face veils and issued a call to arms for maverick school leaders who are “battlers, bruisers and battle-axes” who will not put up with mediocrity.
(18) So who is that bruiser with the generous Rolodex and secret service protection, race-baiting his way around the campaign trail making her case on her behalf?
(19) In Group A, the patients that reported easy bruising tended to be older (61 vs 52 yrs), on higher daily dosages (1,388 vs 1,067 micrograms) and had been taking inhaled corticosteroids for longer (55 vs 43 months) than non-bruisers.
(20) I respect the choice that Jeremy has made as leader.” McDonnell acknowledged his reputation as a political bruiser at a meeting organised by the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) at the Corn Exchange in Brighton on Sunday night.