Athlete vs Sports - What's the difference?
athlete | sports |
A participant in a group of sporting activities which includes track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking.
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(US, Canada) A person who actively participates in physical sports, possibly highly skilled in sports. (Known in British English as a "sportsperson".)
An exceptionally physically fit person.
(sport)
(Reductive) To participate in sports; typically used by a person with little interest in the subject to derisively elide details of the activity in question. ("There's a lot of sportsing happening in Brazil this summer", said of the 2014 FIFA World Cup).
As nouns the difference between athlete and sports
is that athlete is a participant in a group of sporting activities which includes track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking while sports is plural of lang=en.As a verb sports is
third-person singular of sport.athlete
English
Noun
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- She's the first athlete in her sport to come out as gay.