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n. A person who plays rugby, especially professionally.
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Rugby player can refer to a participant in one of two different sports rugby union and rugby league. It can also refer to a participant in the sport of wheelchair rugby.
- A player of rugby union
- A player of rugby sevens
- A player of rugby league
- A player of rugby league nines
- A player of wheelchair rugby
- :Category:Rugby union players
- :Category:Rugby league footballers
- :Category:Wheelchair rugby players
Usage examples of "rugby player".
She's built like a rugby player, could probably put Ferg over her shoulder, but not this girl.
Cooper was a broad shouldered, well-muscled man, a sportsman, a rugby player.
He had been a varsity rugby player while he was at Oxford, half a head taller than Victor, with broad, sloping shoulders, and blond hair that was starting to thin.
He was smiling in only one of the photographs, the one of him as a rugby player, but it was a reluctant smile, the sort ordered by whoever was on the other side of the camera.
At that point, left alone in the elemental fury of a gathering storm, huddled against an outcropping of rock and thinking wistfully about the bouillabaisse at the Royal Gardens, I perceived in the hazy distance a figure that could easily have been that of the largest Rugby player ever to cross the field at Cardiff.
She began to run along the platform like a rugby player clutching a ball.
Out of uniform, he was also an excellent cricket and rugby player, and an absolutely lousy dancer.
He did what another magician would have considered madnesshe rushed Reggie physically, like the rugby player he had been at university, his momentum carrying him over the desk, knocking the body of the poor dead girl off the top, and carrying carcass and Reggie both to the ground.
He did what another magician would have considered madness-he rushed Reggie physically, like the rugby player he had been at university, his momentum carrying him over the desk, knocking the body of the poor dead girl off the top, and carrying carcass and Reggie both to the ground.
In his youth Thomas had been a very fine rugby player, and there were many who had played against Glamorgan who remembered clearly the inadvisability of making a blind-side break when Bryn Thomas was wing forward.
The one in the grey suit ran with his thick arm extended, palm outwards, to fend him off like a rugby player.