anti-doping

adjective

an·​ti-dop·​ing

variants or less commonly antidoping

¦an-ˌtī-¦dō-piŋ 

¦an-tē-

: opposing or prohibiting illegal doping (such as blood doping or the use of anabolic steroids or growth hormones) to improve athletic performance

Austrian athlete Bettina Mueller-Weissina, a seven-time national sprint champion, faces a lifetime ban after allegedly violating anti-doping rules for the second time …

—Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2010

The result has been an expensive race pitting the athletes and their "doctors" against the various athletic organizations and the scientists developing new antidoping tests.

—Jesper L. Andersen et al., Scientific American, September 2000

Word History

Etymology

anti- entry 1 + doping

First Known Use

1934, in the meaning defined above

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