ATHLETE


Meaning of ATHLETE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

athlete's foot

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

black

Does this deny any connection between the physiology of black athletes and their sporting achievements?

Sometimes overcoming enormous odds, mostly because of racial prejudice, black athletes changed the sporting landscape in the United States.

Never mind all that. Black athletes do well because it is in their genes.

Maybe the black athletes are just psyching the white guys out.

By and large black athletes receive identical treatment to everyone else.

female

Considered by many as the greatest female athlete of all time, Joyner-Kersee has won a total of six Olympic medals.

In college, female athletes now make up one-third of all sports competitors, instead of a mere 15 percent.

Since 1972, the number of female high school athletes soared from 300, 000 to more than 2 million.

fine

They were not prepared to use their disappointment as a stick with which to beat a fine athlete .

Its purpose was social and athletic and some of the finest athletes , priests, and citizens of Chicago have been members.

Hershelle Gibbs, who is a fine athlete and has a lot of cricketing potential.

good

At the same time she was a good all-round athlete .

They may not be good enough athletes or students.

Wilko said he s the best athlete he has seen playing football.

The Huskies continued to cull the best athletes in the West and brought them to Seattle.

Pretty good athlete , pretty good student, but never really distinguished himself, either line of work.

great

A tragedy in a way, for I thought that Allan Wells had been a great athlete .

The thrills and chills come from watching great athletes play their hearts out in front of wildly partisan spectators.

Even as Jones was becoming one of the greatest all-around woman athletes in the history of Texas sports, she wondered.

It's like a great athlete .

The greatest athletes are legendary for their powers of concentration.

Power-packs Chang and Sanchez-Vicario are great athletes and so fit.

He is a great athlete with a good arm.

international

He was a top international athlete , an Olympic champion.

Miss Tessa Sanderson, international athlete .

Helping to put the youngsters through their paces will be qualified coaches and local junior international athletes .

olympic

The Olympic athlete with a big heart.

Scott recruited an Olympic athlete to hurl the hammer and London skinheads as audience extras.

I can not believe it took two weeks to discover that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs.

What was he, she thought bitterly, an Olympic athlete ?

Or to know more about Olympic athletes past and present.

Read in studio Britain's top Olympic and paralympic athletes gathered today to celebrate the outstanding achievements in their sports.

But the question still rankles: Can a participating Olympic athlete be openly gay today?

professional

Tolstikov is a wealthy professional athlete , yet he considers bananas a luxury.

Rips of the quadriceps tendon are a fact of life among professional athletes who stress the tendon during jumping and running.

I am retiring, leaving this column to become a professional athlete and sports climber.

Critics say professional athletes have been abusing the generous California system by filing claims from out of state.

But whatever the size of his paycheck, Wunderlich is still a professional athlete .

And workers' compensation payments to professional athletes would be offset by any payments available under a labor contract.

Nevada has no state tax and no major league teams -- but more and more residents who are high-income professional athletes .

top

He was a top international athlete , an Olympic champion.

Indeed, many top athletes and even body-builders subsist on a vegetarian diet.

Would either of them have avoided bypass surgery if they had not been top athletes ?

Charlie Francis's cynical opinion that most of the world's top athletes are on drugs.

young

Ron was so enthusiastic for young athletes to do well.

As she walked beside Archer with her long swinging gait her face wore the vacant serenity of a young marble athlete .

There is rampant use of anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs among young athletes ..

Any young athlete caught taking gifts or money risks being kicked off the team.

It is not about identifying talented young athletes .

Einhorn estimated about 100 to 200 young athletes die each year from the condition.

Two young athletes winning on the big stage and managing to enjoy every minute of the experience.

In 1981, a young athlete from a western state went into the hospital for a simple knee operation.

■ NOUN

field

Kenneth is a field athlete and competes nationally and internationally in javelin, shot and discus.

In December and January, she collected numerous honors as the top woman athlete and top track and field athlete of 2000.

In Sydney last September she became the first female track and field athlete to win five medals in a single Olympics.

student

But their young student athletes might not be as ready as they think.

■ VERB

compete

An estimated 200 million people will watch on television as more than 10, 000 athletes compete in 271 events.

But whereas amateur athletes often compete just for the privilege of winning, retailers compete for customers and profit.

The findings are strictly confidential and we do not know if these athletes were allowed to compete .

Every year races, such as the London, demonstrate how disabled and able-bodied athletes can compete side-by-side in the same competition.

Kenneth is a field athlete and competes nationally and internationally in javelin, shot and discus.

drive

Previously she had come across as a driven , almost obsessed athlete , ever pushed by her father to strive for perfection.

include

They included athletes in a number of sports.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

extreme athlete/surfer/skier etc

Be an extreme athlete; or better yet, look like one on your way to the grocery store.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a good athlete

It was discovered that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs.

Over 150 athletes will compete in the Indoor Championships at Gateshead International Stadium.

The way he got to that ball shows what a superb athlete he is.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

An owner invests years, a fan invests his loyalty, and, there go both, along with the athlete .

Crowds enjoyed seeing a team of transvestites trounce more conventional athletes.

Female speaker Atalanta was a mythical huntress and athlete .

Sports Illustrated for Kids asked a handful of athletes whether they had invented anything when they were kids.

The athletes would pump up their compressed-air bottles themselves, beforehand.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.