doping

noun

dop·​ing ˈdō-piŋ 

: the use of a substance (such as an anabolic steroid or erythropoietin) or technique (such as blood doping) to illegally improve athletic performance

Examples of doping in a Sentence

increased efforts to detect doping at the Olympic Games

Recent Examples on the Web

Ranking Big Ten basketball programs: Is anyone elite in 2024-25? Aldridge: Dikembe Mutombo's outsized impact, and what really matters Buckley: Red Sox management offers lots of words but no impactful message to its fans What is the WADA appeal of Jannik Sinner's doping case really about? —New York Times, 1 Oct. 2024

Or perhaps, as with the Eastern Bloc women on anabolic steroids in the 1980s, there’s an as-yet-undetected form of doping that helps women more than men. —Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2024

Sportsmanship purists say that these shoes constitute a form of technological doping. —Bree Iskandar, Scientific American, 25 July 2024

Sinner’s triumph comes against the backdrop of his recent doping case that became public knowledge on August 20 – news that shocked the tennis world. —Jill Martin, CNN, 8 Sep. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1900, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing doping

• blood doping

Medical Definition

doping

noun

dop·​ing ˈdō-piŋ 

: the use of a substance (such as an anabolic steroid or erythropoietin) or technique (such as blood doping) to improve athletic performance and that is typically banned in competitive sports

… nearly two dozen athletes … have been banned from the Olympics in the last two weeks for doping violations.

—Philip Hersh, The Chicago Tribune