sportsman

English

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: رِيَاضِيّ m (riyāḍiyy)

  Egyptian Arabic: رياضي m (reyaaḍi)

• Armenian: սպորտսմեն (hy) (sportsmen), մարզիկ (hy) (marzik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 運動員／运动员 (zh) (yùndòngyuán), 运动员 (zh) (yùndònɡyuán) (either gender), 男運動員／男运动员, 男运动员 (nányùndònɡyuán)

• Czech: sportovec (cs) m
• Esperanto: sportisto
• Finnish: urheilija (fi)
• French: sportif (fr) m
• Georgian: სპორტსმენი (ka) (sṗorṭsmeni)
• German: (männlicher) Sportler m
• Greek: αθλητικός τύπος m (athlitikós týpos), αθλητικός (el) m (athlitikós), αθλητής (el) m (athlitís)
• Hebrew: סְפּוֹרְטַאי (he) (sportái)
• Hungarian: sportoló (hu)
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• Italian: sportivo (it) m
• Japanese: スポーツマン (supōtsuman), 運動選手 (ja) (undō senshu), スポーツ選手 (supōtsu senshu)
• Korean: 운동선수 (undongseonsu)
• Latvian: sportists m, atlēts m
• Macedonian: спортист m (sportist)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: idrettsmann m

  Nynorsk: idrettsmann m

• Polish: sportowiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: esportivo (pt) m
• Russian: спортсме́н (ru) m (sportsmén), атле́т (ru) m (atlét)
• Spanish: deportista (es) m
• Swedish: idrottsman (sv) c, idrottare (sv) c
• Turkish: sporcu (tr)
• Uzbek: sportchi (uz)

man who engages in country sports

• Finnish: erämies (fi)
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