sportsman

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Etymology

sports +‎ -man.

Noun

sportsman (plural sportsmen)

1. (UK) A man who engages in sports. A male athlete.
2. (dated) A man who engages in country sports, such as hunting or fishing.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 3

     At last extinguishing the fire, he took the idol up very unceremoniously, and bagged it again in his grego pocket as carelessly as if he were a sportsman bagging a dead woodcock.

Derived terms

• sportsmanlike
• sportsman's bet
• sportsmanship

Related terms

• sportswoman

Translations

male athlete

• Arabic: رياضي (ar) (riyaaDiy) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 運動員 (cmn), 运动员 (cmn) (yùndònɡyuán) (either gender)

• Czech: sportovec (cs) m
• Esperanto: sportisto (eo)
• Finnish: urheilija (fi)
• French: sportif (fr) m
• Georgian: სპორტსმენი (ka) (sportsmeni)
• German: Sportler (de) m
• Greek: αθλητικός τύπος (el) (athlitikós týpos) m, αθλητικός (el) (athlitikós) m, αθλητής (el) (athlitís) m

• Hebrew: סְפּוֹרְטַאי (he) (sportái)
• Hungarian: sportoló (hu)
• Italian: sportivo (it) m
• Japanese: スポーツマン (ja) (supōtsuman)
• Portuguese: esportivo (pt) m
• Russian: спортсмен (ru) (sportsmén) m, атлет (ru) (atlét) m
• Spanish: deportista (es) m
• Turkish: sporcu (tr)
• Uzbek: sportchi (uz)