fasters
Those skipping meals
Fasters are people who abstain from food, whether for religious observance, health reasons, or protest.
The term appears in contexts ranging from spiritual practice to medical research: The fasters broke their fast at sundown, Intermittent fasters often skip breakfast.
Those who forgo indulgence
- LentChristian fasting season
- RamadanNinth Islamic month
- Yom KippurAnnual Jewish atonement observance
- asceticsPeople practicing severe self-discipline
penitents · devotees · pilgrims · monks · nuns · hermits · seekers · faithful
Speed contest participants
- sprintersBrief-race speed athletes
- runnersThose who race on foot
- quickestMost rapid in speed
- speediestMost rapid possible
swiftest · nimbler · hastier · accelerators · dashers · rushers · pacers · bolters
Flame-producing stove parts
- digestersVessels for decomposition
- processorsData-handling circuits
- metabolizersEntities that chemically transform substances
- absorbersThings that take in energy
converters · oxidizers · ketosis · autophagy · caloric · efficient · thermogenic · catabolic
abstainers
Those who forgo indulgence
- LentChristian fasting season
- RamadanNinth Islamic month
- Yom KippurAnnual Jewish atonement observance
ascetics · penitents · devotees · pilgrims · monks · nuns · hermits · seekers · faithful · practitioners
racers
Speed contest participants
speediest · swiftest · nimbler · hastier · accelerators · dashers · rushers · pacers · bolters · zippers
burners
Flame-producing stove parts
- digestersVessels for decomposition
- processorsData-handling circuits
- metabolizersEntities that chemically transform substances
absorbers · converters · oxidizers · ketosis · autophagy · caloric · efficient · thermogenic · catabolic · breakdown
- asceticsascetic, ascetics, hermit, hermits, recluse
- fitness peoplegym rats, fitness buffs, bodybuilders, weightlifters, weight lifters
fastersgluttons
Habitual overeaters
overeaters · feasters · gorgers · bingers · binge eaters
- go fasterIncrease velocity
- fastest carSwiftest motor vehicle
- fastest routeMost time-efficient path
- fastest runnerSpeediest racer on foot
- fastest timeQuickest recorded duration
- fastest lapQuickest completed circuit