What is another word for doping?

Pronunciation: [dˈə͡ʊpɪŋ] (IPA)

Doping, in sport, is the use of banned performance-enhancing drugs or substances by athletes to gain a competitive edge. Some common synonyms for the term doping include performance-enhancing drugs, steroids, performance-boosting substances, enhancing substances, and performance-enhancing agents. Other synonyms used to describe doping include blood doping, drug abuse, and substance abuse in sports. Some athletes who use doping methods refer to it as "juicing" or "using enhancements." However, regardless of the terminology used, doping is illegal and unethical, and athletes caught using performance-enhancing substances face severe penalties, including bans and loss of rewards.

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  • Reverse Entailment

    • Adjective
      anti-doping, antidoping.
    • Proper noun, singular
      anti-doping, antidoping.
    • Noun, singular or mass
      anti-doping, antidoping.
  • Independent

    • Adjective
      amphetamine-type.
  • Other Related

    • Noun, singular or mass
      Spiking, drug-taking.

What are the hypernyms for Doping?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Doping

How far is that father justified in doping his son's liquor, so he won't lie awake at nights planning to roll him for his wad next morning?
"The Son of his Father"
Ridgwell Cullum
Some said preposterous - Christ a magician doping his followers and using the Cross as a stage prop.
"Sympathetic Magic"
Paul Cameron Brown
When we had finished doping out the program we shook hands all around.
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch

Famous quotes with Doping

  • And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping.
    Alberto Juantorena
  • It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former.
    Richard Pound
  • I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.
    Richard Virenque

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