walk-on
Example Sentences
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Rioux, who will be a redshirt sophomore, grew up in Quebec, Canada, and played at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., before attending Florida as a preferred walk-on.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
The former Crespi High star initially wanted to play for Michigan State, but he couldn’t make the team, even as a walk-on, so he tried to become a student manager, and failed at that, too.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
“If I did nothing but eat and lift for six months,” a football fan might fantasize, “I could be a walk-on at the next Jets training camp.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
That makes me excited to wake up and do the whole, like, walk-on or whatever.
From Barron's • Jan. 21, 2026
Louis the Goon Engel was a mere walk-on in the piece, a spear-carrier doomed to death.
From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various
