luger
- noun
- /ˈluːɡər/
- UK
- Before starting any mental training, baseline psychological testing was conducted in which MST lugers completed the GEQ prior to practice and the CSAI-2 prior to their first practice run.
- MST lugers
- control lugers
- placebo and control lugers
They were an Olympic luge luger.
- They were an Olympic luge luger.
Examples
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Furthermore, the development of these mental skills was believed to have the added benefit of being important life skills that should help lugers enhance satisfaction and productivity in other areas of their lives outside of sport.
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All MST lugers responded to the 3-month follow-up, confirming that they were continuing to practice relaxation skills approximately 8 times per week.
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Third, the MST program employed in this study taught lugers a range of stress management and cohesion skills.
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Attention control and control lugers completed the CSAI-2 and GEQ at similar times during their training camps.
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Because of the high risk of injury as well as the normal performance demands of high-level sport, young lugers seem to be a group who could significantly benefit from the development of effective mental skills.
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In addition to luge training, MST lugers received a mental skills training program designed to develop important stress management and cohesion skills.
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Moreover, this MST program used intact groups rather than attempting to employ random assignment of lugers to treatments for two reasons.
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The LPCIEI is a 4-item self-report inventory designed for this study to assess MST lugers' perceptions of mental training program effectiveness.
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Regrettably, logistic problems limited exposure of the attention control lugers to only 3 hours of treatment compared to the 24-hour program implemented with the MST lugers.
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During the Winter Olympics, the top lugers from around the world compete fiercely for medals.
Synonyms
A person who slides down an icy track on a small sled lying on their back
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Luger comes from the sport luge, a French word meaning 'sled', with the English ending -er that makes a word for a person. So a luger is someone who rides that small sled in a luge race, which is why the word means the athlete who races down the icy track.