weekend warrior

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A part-time soldier, or reservist.

   • 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.
2. 2

   A person who indulges in a sport or pastime on an infrequent basis, usually on weekends…

   A person who indulges in a sport or pastime on an infrequent basis, usually on weekends when work commitments are not present.

   • 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.

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