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Off-season

Meaning in sports & fitness, with examples

/ˈɔf ˌsizən/nounCommon term

In sports & fitness, off-season means: The part of the year when there are no official competitions in a sport, used for rest, recovery, transfers and building fitness for the next season.

In Turkish: sezon arası, sezon dışı dönem

How it is used

Used by players, coaches and journalists. Athletes rest or train in the off-season, and clubs make changes to the squad. Pre-season is the training period just before competitions start; in-season is when they are being played.

Example sentences

  1. He used the off-season to work on his upper-body strength.

  2. Our off-season programme starts two weeks after the last match.

Common collocations

  • during the off-season
  • off-season training
  • off-season programme
  • pre-season and off-season
  • leagueA group of teams or players who compete against each other over a season, earning points for results and ranked in a table.
  • training programA planned series of workouts over weeks or months that sets out the exercises, sets, reps, intensity and rest needed to reach a goal.
  • rest dayA day in a training plan with no hard exercise, planned so that the body can recover and adapt.
  • bulk upTo gain body weight and muscle size on purpose, usually by eating more calories than you burn while doing heavy strength training.

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