Honestly I’ve never really considered Jock a gendered term. I think personally I’d probably just use Jock as a gender neutral term.
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Lol, can I propose jicks?
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”.
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.
