"weekend warrior" meaning in English

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          "text": "Such was the pace with which I, and many like me, the so called ‘weekend warriors’ or Territorial Army, were hoisted aboard the Gulf War battle wagon.",
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          "text": "At Anacostia, the training that is done to naval aviators who are in the Reserve Services, weekend warrior(s) as it were, and they come to Anacostia to get their refresher training.",
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          "ref": "2018, Tim Winton, The Shepherd's Hut, Picador UK Paperback edition 2018, p. 95",
          "text": "Whoever camped here was no weekend warrior neither because round the tanks I saw old kero tins with veggies growing in them."
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          "ref": "2024 September 26, Ian Sample, “‘Weekend warrior’ workouts may be as effective as daily exercise, study shows”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "A study of nearly 90,000 people enrolled in the UK Biobank project found that “weekend warriors” who fit a week’s worth of exercise into one or two days had a lower risk of developing more than 200 diseases compared with inactive people.",
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        "(humorous) A person who indulges in a sport or pastime on an infrequent basis, usually on weekends when work commitments are not present."
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