sportsman
sportsman noun: a man who engages in sports; an athlete.
Noun
sportsman (plural sportsmen)
- A man who engages in sports; an athlete.
- On the contrary, the difference between the worse male and female sportsmen was 54 ms. Among the male sportsmen [...]. Among the female sportsmen [...]2014, Libor Flemr, Jiří Němec, Kateřina Kudláčková, editors, Physical activity in science and practice: Conference Proceedings | In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the...
- In both cases the female sportsmen were Nordic skiers.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...
- A man who engages in country sports, such as hunting or fishing.
- 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.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
- A man who exhibits good sportsmanship, or who exhibits sportsmanship as specified (good or bad).
Proper noun capitalized: Sportsman
Sportsman (plural Sportsmans)
- A surname from Dutch.
sportsman meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
sportsman in Hindi
- (male) athlete
- खिलाड़ी khilāṛī
sportsman in Tamil
- விளையாட்டு வீரர்
sportsman in Marathi
- क्रीडापटू
sportsman in Urdu
- (male) athlete
- کِھلاڑی khilāṛī
More languagesFewer languages
- sportsman in Bengali
- খেলোয়াড়, ক্রীড়াবিদ
- sportsman in Telugu
- క్రీడాకారుడు krīḍākāruḍu
- sportsman in Malayalam
- നായാട്ടുകാരൻ, കളിക്കാരൻ, മാന്യമായും ന്യായമായും പെരുമാറുന്നവൻ, കായികാഭ്യാസക്കാരൻ
- sportsman in Kannada
- ಆಟಗಾರ, ಮೋಸಮಾಡದವನು
- sportsman in Gujarati
- રમતવીર
- sportsman in Odia
- କ୍ରୀଡ଼ାବିତ୍, କ୍ରୀଡ଼ାବିତ
- sportsman in Pashto
- ورزشکار warzǝškãr
- sportsman in Arabic
- رِيَاضِيّ riyāḍiyy
- sportsman in Malay
- olahragawan, ahli sukan, atlet
- sportsman in Indonesian
- olahragawan
- sportsman in Thai
- นักกีฬา nák-gii-laa
- sportsman in Vietnamese
- vận động viên, nhà thể thao
- sportsman in Myanmar
- အားကစားသမား a:ka.ca:sa.ma:
Examples of sportsman in a sentence
- None of the sportsmen who have crossed my path have made as great an impact on me as Ian.
- He felt that professional sportsmen were overpaid and overregarded.
- Two red-coated sportsmen, while hunting close to our village the other day, got into a small but deep pond.
Forms of sportsman
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sportsmen |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Sportsmans |
Origin of sportsman
From sports + -man.
Possibly an altered form of Dutch Sportmans.
Words formed from sportsman
Questions about sportsman
- What does sportsman mean?
- Sportsman means a man who engages in sports; an athlete.
- What is sportsman in Hindi?
- Sportsman in Hindi is खिलाड़ी (khilāṛī). See Sportsman meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sportsman?
- Sportsman can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of sportsman?
- The plural of sportsman is sportsmen.
Words near sportsman in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sportsman (page history and authors); Sportsman (page history and authors); sportsman (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sportsman (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sportsman (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); క్రీడాకారుడు (Telugu) (page history and authors); sportsman (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sportsman (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sportsman (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sportsman (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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