sportsmanship

English

Etymology

From sports +‎ -manship.

Noun

sportsmanship (usually uncountable, plural sportsmanships)

1. The good attitude/behaviour displayed by players of a game; fairness, determination, magnanimity, courtesy towards opponents, and winning or losing gracefully.
2. The behaviour exhibited in playing sports, either good or bad.

   James showed good sportsmanship in consoling Shankar after his wicket fell.

Translations

(good) behavior in sports

• Arabic: رُوح رِيَاضِيَّة f (rūḥ riyāḍiyya)
• Bulgarian: спортсменство (bg) n (sportsmenstvo)
• Catalan: esportivitat f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 體育精神 / 体育精神 (tǐyù jīngshén)

• Finnish: urheiluhenki (fi), urheilijamaisuus
• French: sportivité (fr) f
• Galician: deportividade (gl) f
• German: Sportsgeist (de) m, Sportlichkeit (de) f
• Greek: αθλητικό πνεύμα n (athlitikó pnévma)
• Indonesian: sportivitas (id), kesportifan (id)
• Italian: sportività (it) f
• Japanese: スポーツマンシップ (ja) (supōtsumanshippu)
• Korean: 스포츠맨 정신 (seupocheumaen jeongsin), 정정당당한 태도 (jeongjeongdangdanghan taedo)
• Macedonian: спо́ртски дух m (spórtski duh)
• Polish: sportowe zachowanie n
• Portuguese: espírito esportivo m
• Spanish: deportividad, espíritu deportivo m, juego limpio m
• Welsh: sbortsmonaeth m, chwarae teg m

See also

• good sport
• poor sport
• cricket

Further reading

• sportsmanship on Wikipedia.Wikipedia