sportsman
See also: Sportsman
English
Etymology
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Noun
sportsman (plural sportsmen)
- (UK) A man who engages in sports; an athlete.
- 2014, Libor Flemr, Jiří Němec, Kateřina Kudláčková (eds), Physical activity in science and practice: Conference Proceedings | In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University in Prague [Prague, 19-21 June 2013], p. 237:
- On the contrary, the difference between the worse male and female sportsmen was 54 ms. Among the male sportsmen [...]. Among the female sportsmen [...]
- 2008, Atko Viru, Adaptation in Sports Training, Informa Healthcare USA, New York, p. 227 (Chapter 9: Gender Differences in Training Effects, sub-chapter Metabolic Capacities in male and female Athletes):
- In both cases the female sportsmen were Nordic skiers.
- 2014, Libor Flemr, Jiří Němec, Kateřina Kudláčková (eds), Physical activity in science and practice: Conference Proceedings | In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University in Prague [Prague, 19-21 June 2013], p. 237:
- (dated) A man who engages in country sports, such as hunting or fishing.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- 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
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Translations
(male) athlete
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man who engages in country sports
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Romanian
Noun
sportsman m (plural sportsmeni)
- Alternative form of sportsmen
Declension
Declension of sportsman
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) sportsman | sportsmanul | (niște) sportsmeni | sportsmenii |
genitive/dative | (unui) sportsman | sportsmanului | (unor) sportsmeni | sportsmenilor |
vocative | sportsmanule | sportsmenilor |
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