An athlete participating in the Olympic Games under the Olympic flag, i.e. without representing any nation, either because the athlete is stateless, or because their nation has no international recognition or is banned.

plural of Independent Olympic Participant

(medicine, statistics) A skewing of data in randomized medical studies that occurs when healthy participants are less likely to drop out of the study than sicker patients.

(education) A proponent of participationism.

(education) An approach to learning that focuses on the individual learner interacting with other people.

plural of participationist