athlete

Definition:
1. A person who competes in sports.
2. A person trained to compete in sports.
3. A person who is good at sports and physical exercise.

Use 'athlete' in a sentence:

• 1. The athlete takes off from one leg from an inward twist.
• 2. It takes great skill, cool nerves and the reflexes of an athlete.
• 3. We challenged a team who called themselves 'College Athletes'.
• 4. Was he an athlete?
• 5. In the 1950s, a female swimming athlete set a goal for herself.
• 6. She is unarguably one of the country's finest athletes.
• 7. The athletes are all on top form.
• 8. You're a really good athlete!
• 9. My favourite athlete is Michael Jordan.
• 10. The standards set four years ago in Seoul will be far below the athletes' capabilities now.
• 11. She was just an average high school athlete.
• 12. Today the media drive athletes to the view that the important thing is to gain worldly success.
• 13. We've had a series of athletes trying to come back well past their prime.
• 14. By the time the tests took place, the athletes had had a full 17 hours notice.
• 15. I'm going to be an athlete.
• 16. Then you must be an athlete.
• 17. The athlete is very strong.
• 18. Do you want to be a superstar athlete?
• 19. Top athletes have to be very fit.
• 20. He is a successful athlete.
• 21. It takes great skill, cool nerves, and the reflexes of an athlete.
• 22. Derartu is an outstanding athlete and deserved to win.
• 23. The athletes are just happy to make the British team.
• 24. He's something of an athlete.
• 25. The athlete received a two-year suspension following a positive drug test.
• 26. An athlete is an artist.
• 27. My mother is an athlete.
• 28. Where is the athlete?
• 29. I want to be an athlete.
• 30. The athlete is running.
• 31. He is an athlete from the British.
• 32. He had been one of the game's most versatile athletes.
• 33. The team coach was forced to step in to stop the two athletes from coming to blows.
• 34. She has already distinguished herself as an athlete.
• 35. Like most athletes, she was lean and muscular.
• 36. His admiration for the athlete did not extend to the point where he would follow his example in taking drugs.
• 37. Orange juice is to be pitched as an athlete's drink.
• 38. The athletes are all in peak condition.
• 39. Athletes have hardly any fatty tissue.
• 40. The importance of being an Olympian will vary from athlete to athlete.
• 41. The boy first showed promise as an athlete in grade school.
• 42. Mark Spitz was a great athlete.
• 43. She is a natural athlete.
• 44. Research on athletes and ordinary human subjects has yielded a mixed bag of results.
• 45. An Olympic gold medal can lead to untold riches for an athlete.
• 46. He's a talented athlete who competes nationally and internationally.
• 47. Like most female athletes, she was lean and muscular.
• 48. The athletes trained at altitude in Mexico City.
• 49. He is the greatest athlete this country has ever produced.
• 50. Two athletes tested positive for steroids.
• 51. The athlete tested positive for steroids.
• 52. Athletes need a good sense of balance.
• 53. The least experienced athletes had caused a great many false-starts through the day's proceedings.