Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A contestant in a sprint-race; a short-distance runner.
Wiktionary
- n. one who sprints
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who sprints; one who runs in sprint races.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who runs a short distance at top speed
Examples
“I was playing an ancient tape of a sprinter from the 2022 Olympics.”
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“While the British sprinter is the team's best-known rider, local fans would have preferred Italian national time trial champion Marco Pinotti to have had the honor.”
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“The Jamaican sprinter is the first under 11 seconds this year.”
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“Brown, blessed with the size of a fullback and the speed of a sprinter, is an excellent receiver in addition to his skills as a power runner.”
“The sprinter is serving a two-year ban from track and field.”
“ATHENS Sometime Friday morning, a teenage sprinter from the newest nation in the Olympics, which has neither a television station nor a stoplight, will line up for the 100-meter dash.”
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“CBS They call sprinter Oscar Pistorius the "Blade Runner," for the j-shaped prostheses he wears.”
“Campbellās former career as a sprinter is one of which his wife is conspicuously proud.”
“A big-name sprinter will run in the stadium for the first time later this month on a 60-metre running track to tie in with the two-year milestone.”
The Guardian: London Olympic venues 'will be finished early and under budget'
“The result on a course which suited Cavendish's strengths as a sprinter was the culmination of three years' planning by British Cycling.”
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