All athlete synonyms

noun athlete

• competitor — A company's competitors are companies who are trying to sell similar goods or services to the same people.
• player — Gary, born 1935, South African golfer.
• animal — An animal is a living creature such as a dog, lion, or rabbit, rather than a bird, fish, insect, or human being.
• professional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
• contestant — A contestant in a competition or quiz is a person who takes part in it.
• sport — an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
• jock — Scot. and Irish English. a nickname for John. an innocent lad; country boy.
• jockey — a person who rides horses professionally in races.
• amateur — An amateur is someone who does something as a hobby and not as a job.
• contender — A contender is someone who takes part in a competition.
• challenger — A challenger is someone who competes with you for a position or title that you already have, for example being a sports champion or a political leader.
• gorilla — the largest of the anthropoid apes, Gorilla gorilla, terrestrial and vegetarian, of western equatorial Africa and the Kivu highlands, comprising the subspecies G. g. gorilla (western lowland gorilla) G. g. graueri (eastern lowland gorilla) and G. g. beringei (mountain gorilla) now rare.
• participant — a person or group that participates; partaker.
• sportsperson — athlete