weekend warrior
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.09 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who indulges in a sport or pastime on an infrequent basis, usually on weekends when work commitments are not present.
Humorous
Example Sentences
- "Such was the pace with which I, and many like me, the so called ‘weekend warriors’ or Territorial Army, were hoisted aboard the Gulf War battle wagon."
- "At Anacostia, the training that is done to naval aviators who are in the Reserve Services, weekend warrior(s) as it were, and they come to Anacostia to get their refresher training."
- "The most common foot-related injury I see for the weekend warrior is heel pain."
- "Whoever camped here was no weekend warrior neither because round the tanks I saw old kero tins with veggies growing in them."
- "A study of nearly 90,000 people enrolled in the UK Biobank project found that “weekend warriors” who fit a week’s worth of exercise into one or two days had a lower risk of developing more than 200 diseases compared with inactive people."