sporter

Noun

sporter (plural sporters)

1. Someone who sports something.
   • But today, the mustache cannot shake its ties to the sexy-yet-buffoonish machismo of the mid-1970s, epitomized by Burt Reynolds, Sam Elliott and the Village People, 'stache sporters all.2009 January 8, David Colman, “Inching Its Way Back Onto the Lip”, in New York Times
2. A firearm suitable for sporting use.
3. (archaic) One who takes part in sport or games.
   • Charles Lack-wit will have it given out, he is retired into the country, only for the reputation of being thought a man of fashion, when all the while his retirement is to be incessantly hurried with the violence of a madman after a pack of yelping hounds; or brutally murdering whole months of...1780, The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer
4. One who sports or plays with something; a trifler.
   • We have, however, good reason to suspect the Legislature will soon adopt means of rewarding the ingenuity of these indirect sporters with human life.1823, The Monthly Gazette of Health, page 557