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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
triathlete

by 1983; see triathlon + athlete.

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triathlete

n. (context athletics English) An athlete who competes in the triathlon.

Usage examples of "triathlete".

My relationship with Nike went back to when I was a high-school runner and a triathlete, and thought their progressive messages were cool and their athletes the most hip.

There were the broken bones and cuts from sports as a kid and then in college, there was the inevitable wear and tear that came with competing as a world-class triathlete, and then there were the scars, both mental and physical, of his trade.

Unless you had the commitment of an Olympian or a triathlete, you just had to be content with your own personal bests.

He was as superbly built as a triathlete, and she actually ached to touch him, to run her palms all over him.

I had two sets of friends, a circle of popular high-school kids who I would carouse with, and then my athlete friends, the bike racers and runners and triathletes, some of them grown men.

Men, women, children, a rainbow of brightly colored shirts, pieces of paper pinned to the fronts with four-digit numbers, except for the shirtless triathletes, who had numbers in grease pencil on shaved chests.