urban warrior

plural urban warriors

1. One who lives in a city and has an aggressive, competitive attitude which tends to be focused on physical activity.

   They aren't even urban warriors. I can't figure out why the bunch of them aren't at Club Med, laying around on a beach and knocking back mai tais.

   1999, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon, →ISBN, page 31

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   There is something about the landscape that caresses the soul and frees the body from tension that clings to the bones and muscles, residue of battles won and lost as an urban warrior and, as a reporter once described me as, "...a street fighter for New Music."

   2006, Joseph Franklin, Settling Scores: A Life in the Margins of American Music, →ISBN, page 11

   Ruthless urban warrior cyclists reclaiming the streets and hurrying to deliver that urgent parcel or meet the immoveable deadline of workplace arrival, add to the mêlée.

   2010, Andrew Walker, Aaron Kennedy, Discovering the Spirit in the City, →ISBN, page 97

   You can partially or totally ignore the situation for a short while longer, you can become immobilised with fear, or you can become an urban warrior (or warrioress) and groove on the greatest, most spectacular tragicomic, science-'fiction' drama ever enacted on this planet (probably) until the lights go out.

   2012, Stephen Russell, Handbook for the Urban Warrior: Spiritual Survival Guide, →ISBN