doping

US/ˈdoʊpɪŋ/

nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,218 of 15,258leans written

Doping is cheating with forbidden drugs that boost performance. A doping test, doping scandal, banned for doping.

The rule that catches most athletes is strict liability: what is in your body is your responsibility, whatever you were told or given. The biological passport tracks an athlete's own blood values over time, so doping shows up as a change rather than as a drug.

Definitions of doping

1noundopingCheating with forbidden performance-enhancing drugs.B2+
“The cyclist was banned for two years after a doping scandal.”

doping is a form of cheating.

Where it comes from

From dope + -ing.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Sports & Fitness

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doping in the wild

The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA, yoo-SAH-duh) is a non-profit, non-governmental 501(c)(3) organization and the national anti-doping organization (NADO) for the United States.
United States Anti-Doping Agency
In competitive sports, doping is the use of banned athletic performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) by athletes as a way of cheating.
Doping in sport
The term doping is widely used by organizations that regulate sporting competitions.
Doping in sport
When on the order of one dopant atom is added per 100 million intrinsic atoms, the doping is said to be low or light.
Doping (semiconductor)
When many more dopant atoms are added, on the order of one per ten thousand atoms, the doping is referred to as high or heavy.
Doping (semiconductor)

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