sportsman

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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.

Related terms

• sportswoman

Translations

• French: sportif
• German: (männlicher) Sportler
• Italian: sportivo
• Portuguese: esportivo
• Russian: спортсме́н
• Spanish: deportista

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