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sportspeople An athlete (also sportsman or sportswoman) is a person who competes in one or more sports that involve physical strength, speed, or endurance. Athletes may be professionals or amateurs. Most professional athletes have particularly well-develo ...

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sport Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, ...

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Archers Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In mo ...

* Baseball players (Major League Baseball) *Basketball players ** Basketball players (Men's National Basketball Association) ** Basketball players (Women's National Basketball Association) * Beach volleyball players * Bellator MMA fighters * Boxers ** Female boxers ** Male boxers * Bullfighters *

Cricketers Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by strik ...

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Cyclists Cycling, also, when on a two-wheeled bicycle, called bicycling or biking, is the use of Bicycle, cycles for transport, recreation, Physical exercise, exercise or sport. People engaged in cycling are referred to as "cyclists", "bicyclists", ...

* Dancers * Divers * Disc golf * Fencers *

Figure skaters Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are me ...

*Football games ** American football players ** Association football players ** Gaelic footballers * Golfers ** Female golfers ** Male golfers * Grand Prix motorcycle racers * Gymnasts * Heptathletes * Ice hockey players (National Hockey League) * Jockeys * Kickboxers ** Female kickboxers ** Male kickboxers * Judoka * Marathon runners *

Martial artists Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practiced for a number of reasons such as self-defense; military and law enforcement applications; competition; physical, mental, and spiritual development; entertainment; and the preserv ...

*Mixed martial arts **

Female mixed martial artists Female (symbol: ♀) is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete during sexual reproduction. A female has larger gametes than a male. Females ...

** Male mixed martial artists * Motocross riders * Orienteers *

Polo players Polo is a ball game played on horseback, a traditional field sport and one of the world's oldest known team sports. The game is played by two opposing teams with the objective of scoring using a long-handled wooden mallet to hit a small har ...

* Pro skaters * Race walkers *

Roller skaters Roller skating is the act of traveling on surfaces with roller skates. It is a recreational activity, a sport, and a form of transportation. Roller rinks and skate parks are built for roller skating, though it also takes place on streets, si ...

* Rowers * Rugby union players * Skiers * Speed skaters * Sporting knights and dames * Sprinters * Squash players *

Surfers Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer (or two in tandem surfing), uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore. Waves suitable ...

Swimmers Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

* Synchronised swimmers * Table tennis players *Track and field athletes ** Hammer throwers ** Javelin throwers ** Male hurdlers ** Marathoners ** Long-distance runners ** Middle-distance runners ** Sprinters * Racing drivers * Triathletes * Tennis players ** Female tennis players ** Male singles tennis players ** Male doubles tennis players * UFC fighters * Ultimate disc players * Volleyball players * Water polo players *

Wrestlers Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat spo ...

** Amateur wrestlers **

Professional wrestlers Professional wrestling is a form of theater that revolves around staged wrestling matches. The mock combat is performed in a ring similar to the kind used in boxing, and the dramatic aspects of pro wrestling may be performed both in the ring or ...

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