I think the ancients referred to them as “Sporty Spice”
Honestly I’ve never really considered Jock a gendered term. I think personally I’d probably just use Jock as a gender neutral term.
I hear jock I just think athlete, so I’m gonna go with athlete.
Isn’t jock kind of pejorative though? Athlete wouldn’t communicate the same disdain.
If you think of it with those connotations, yes. My point was that to me, I don’t think of it that way, I just think of it as a synonym for athlete.
Gold star for you?
this, probably
IMO no equivalent. The closest word people might use is really derogatory, and has a connotation of being overly masculine for a woman.
In the spirit of describing women who are extremely proficient at a sport but not being indirectly called masculine… the word is probably just “athletic”.
Tom boy was a pretty classic term though it has gained some additional connotations.
idk about that. Tomboy means more than ‘girl that does sports’. If anything, I’d say the sports aspects are the additional connotations it’s gained more recently.
Lol, can I propose jicks?
yesss
Panties :D
I heard some people call them Stacies and I have seen this being used in pop culture as well.
Cheerleaders if you mean like a subculture clique?
At my highschool, 2001-5 we called them “preps”
In my area, that’s a word for popular/materialistic girls, not athletic ones. I think OP means to find a term for girls who are athletic, not for the stereotypical girl “equivalent” (i.e., not a girl like Cher from Clueless).
Okay. I was just saying in highschool, the girls that played softball or volleyball or whatever we’re called preps 🤷
Oh, interesting; that wasn’t my experience at all. There were popular/preppy girls that played sports, but there was a separate type of girl that played multiple sports and made it, like, part of their identity like the guys did. Didn’t really have a name for them, though.
I guess “jock” would work for a girl/woman, but if you said “I hooked up with a jock last night,” everyone would assume you meant a guy. So it’s not really a gender neutral term.
prep = prep school = upper class
jock = jock strap = athletes
That’s fine…
sounds about right, i went to highschool 2019-2024
A jock isn’t a “male prep” though, a jock is a specific type of male prep and male preps are just preps.
