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/mˈɛrəθˌɑn rˈənər/ Listen

Marathon runner

noun

Someone who participates in long-distance races (especially in marathons). Synonyms: long-distance runner, marathoner, road runner.

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... the long slope of a low hill and took the decline beyond. The young plainsman had the legs and the wind of a Marathon runner. His was the perfect physical fitness of one who lives a clean, hard life in the dry air of the high lands. The swiftness and the endurance of the fugitive told him that he was in the wake of youth trained to a ...

— Man Size • William MacLeod Raine

... slope of a low hill and took the decline beyond. The young plainsman had the legs and the wind of a Marathon runner. His was the perfect physical fitness of one who lives a clean, hard life in the dry air of the high lands. The swiftness and the endurance of the fugitive told him that he was in the wake of youth ...

— Man Size • William MacLeod Raine