Definition of Sprinters

1. Noun. (plural of sprinter) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sprinters

1. sprinter [n] - See also: sprinter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sprinters

springy
sprinkle
sprinkled
sprinkler
sprinkler system
sprinklered
sprinklering
sprinklers
sprinkles
sprinkling
sprinklings
sprinkly
sprint
sprinted
sprinter
sprinters (current term)
sprinting
sprints
sprit
sprite
sprite halo
spriteful
spritelike
spritely
spriter
spriters
sprites
spriting
sprits

Literary usage of Sprinters

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Rowing and Track Athletics by Samuel Crowther, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1905)
"CHAPTER V SPRINTING AND AMERICAN sprinters sprinters are born and not made. The making helps, and is necessary, but the gift of speed must be born into them ..."

2. The English Turf: A Record of Horses and Courses by Charles Richardson (1901)
"... consignment—English breeders—Too many short races—sprinters—The late Duke of Westminster and the sale of Ormonde—Austrian and German buyers of ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"But although the number of mediocre sprinters is large, the number of really fine ... Of late years most sprinters have taken to starting with both hands ..."

4. The Arab, the Horse of the Future by James Penn Boucaut (1905)
"Sprinting necessarily causes the breeding of ' sprinters.' The breeding of sprinters has ruined the breed of English thoroughbreds, and another half-century ..."

5. Outing (1893)
"After the men had become somewhat accustomed to the work they were divided into six squads—the long-distance men, the middle-distance men, the sprinters, ..."

6. Athletics and Football by Montague Shearman (1887)
"... for we know on good authority that a Sheffield trainer came up and accosted one of the London heavy-weight sprinters, whom he had seen running at a ..."

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