(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.
Sportsman
Definition:
(n.) One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Following an episode of angina, the younger brother, a sportsman, but a smoker, developed an antero-septal infarct at rest, which was complicated by complete persistent right bundle branch block.
(2) He was a pioneer sexologist, demographer, and sportsman and an early Zionist.
(3) The owner of Biogenesis, the now-closed Florida anti-aging clinic , said in an interview with CBS TV show "60 Minutes" that the 38-year-old sportsman paid him $12,000 per month for an assortment of banned drugs including testosterone and human growth hormone.
(4) He's been the league MVP for two years in a row, he's the reigning NBA finals MVP, he led Team USA to a gold medal in last summer's Olympics, he's on this year's All-Defense first team, oh and there's that Sports Illustrated's sportsman of the year thing … OK, you get the idea, there's a lot of compelling evidence out there that suggests that the dude knows how to play basketball.
(5) Following the extensive technical progress in monitoring of sports performance, putting certain physiological principles out of reach for the everyday sportsman, we wondered if perceived effort (PE) as described by Borg is a parameter that is of use, or complementary, to the determination of the anaerobic threshold (AT) during an incremental test on a treadmill on one hand and to prescribing exercise adapted to the type of metabolic load on the other.
(6) An important result of the laboratory experiment was that whereas a ski boot can be moved without difficulty into a strong forward lean position of the skier by an experienced sportsman, a beginner can only assume a forward lean with 20% less inclination (this being a significant difference).
(7) He has to reconnect, feel like a sportsman again, feel useful, feel healthy.
(8) The periodical health examination should be done before any exercise event with emphasis on the cardiovascular system so that the old sportsman can choose the proper exercise item and take self-control during the exercise.
(9) To the condemnation of some of his colleagues, Hemming, who has been campaigning on the issue, exercised parliamentary privilege to identify the star at the centre of the injunction just minutes after the high court refused to lift a ban on naming the sportsman.
(10) Clack was also a keen sportsman, and represented the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and his battalion at rugby.
(11) As far as the sportsman is concerned, this entails only brief loss of training and the possibility to avoid muscular atrophy of the affected leg by means of physiotherapeutic exercise.
(12) The deal will make Beckham the second highest-paid sportsman in the US, a remarkable statistic given he will ply his trade in a minority sport associated with swing-voter "soccer moms" and primarily practised by teenage girls.
(13) The third patient, a keen water-sportsman and resident in the endemic area for a period of 10 years, presented with a mild infection, probably due to acquired immunity initiated during previous contacts with infected water; he took about a year to recover.
(14) If you eat a cake, you're putting in diesel; a sportsman's got to run off super.
(15) I’ve never come across it in sport because you’re a sportsman, it’s a macho thing, so it never enters your head.” If we are going to be generous, they were different times and there were lots of clubs in those days operating with these attitudes.
(16) 28-year-old sportsman developed chest pain, dyspnoea, haemoptysis and swelling of the right leg.
(17) He is a keen sportsman and swims or pumps iron every day in one of several gyms at his home and offices.
(18) Within an hour of a judge refusing to lift an injunction barring the naming of the sportsman at the heart of an anonymous privacy injunction, a Liberal Democrat backbencher, John Hemming, stood up in the Commons chamber yesterday and named Manchester United's Ryan Giggs as the mystery claimant.
(19) A sportsman gets praised and we love that but you get criticised too.
(20) We report about a stress fracture of the lateral neck of femur of a 51 years old sportsman which was operated with an angled blade plate 130 degrees.