amateur vs athlete

amateur

noun
  • Someone who is unqualified or insufficiently skillful. 

  • A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, science, or art (such as music or painting), especially one who cultivates any study, interest, taste, or attachment without engaging in it professionally. 

adj
  • Showing a lack of professionalism, experience or talent. 

  • Non-professional. 

  • Created, done, or populated by amateurs or non-professionals. 

athlete

noun
  • A person who actively participates in physical sports, especially with great skill; a sportsperson. 

  • An exceptionally physically fit person. 

  • A participant in a group of sporting activities which includes track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking. 

  • She's the first athlete in her sport to obtain a corporate sponsor. 

How often have the words amateur and athlete occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )