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Endurance

Meaning in sports & fitness, with examples

/ɪnˈdʊrəns/nounCore term

In sports & fitness, endurance means: The ability to keep up physical effort for a long time without tiring, important in sports like running, cycling, swimming and rowing.

In Turkish: dayanıklılık, dayanıklılık kapasitesi

How it is used

Used in coaching and sports science. Coaches build or improve endurance; endurance sports and endurance athletes form a whole category. Muscular endurance means a muscle's ability to repeat an effort many times.

Example sentences

  1. We do long, easy rides in winter to build endurance.

  2. Marathon runners need a lot of endurance.

Common collocations

  • build endurance
  • endurance sports
  • endurance athlete
  • muscular endurance
  • endurance training
  • aerobicDescribes exercise or energy production that uses oxygen, usually steady activity you can keep up for a long time, like jogging or cycling.
  • VO2 maxThe maximum amount of oxygen your body can take in and use during intense exercise, a key measure of aerobic fitness.
  • marathonA long-distance running race of 42.195 kilometres (26.2 miles), usually held on roads; the word is also used for any very long event.
  • cardioShort for cardiovascular exercise: activities like running, cycling or rowing that keep your heart rate raised for a sustained period.
  • triathlonAn endurance race in which athletes swim, cycle and then run, one straight after the other, over set distances.

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