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sportsperson

Syllables: sports·per·son/spɔːtspɜːsən/US/spɔɹtspɝsən/

sportsperson noun: someone who plays sport, regardless of gender.

Noun

sportsperson (plural sportspersons or sportspeople)

  1. Someone who plays sport, regardless of gender.

sportsperson meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

sportsperson in Hindi

someone who plays sport, regardless of gender
खिलाड़ी khilāṛī

sportsperson in Tamil

விளையாட்டு வீரர் அல்லது வீராங்கனை

sportsperson in Urdu

someone who plays sport, regardless of gender
کِھلاڑی khilāṛī, وَرْزِش کار varziś kār

sportsperson in Bengali

someone who plays sport, regardless of gender
ক্রীড়াবিদ kriṛabid
More languagesFewer languages
sportsperson in Pashto
ورزشکار warzǝškãr
sportsperson in Arabic
رِيَاضِيّ riyāḍiyy, رِيَاضِيَّة riyāḍiyya
sportsperson in Malay
olahragawan, ahli sukan, atlet
sportsperson in Indonesian
olahragawan
sportsperson in Thai
นักกีฬา nák-gii-laa
sportsperson in Vietnamese
nhà thể thao, vận động viên
sportsperson in Myanmar
အားကစားသမား a:ka.ca:sa.ma:

Forms of sportsperson

pluralsportspersons
pluralsportspeople

Origin of sportsperson

From sports + -person.

Words formed from sportsperson

Questions about sportsperson

What does sportsperson mean?
Sportsperson means someone who plays sport, regardless of gender.
What is sportsperson in Hindi?
Sportsperson in Hindi is खिलाड़ी (khilāṛī). See Sportsperson meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is sportsperson?
Sportsperson is a noun.
How do you pronounce sportsperson?
Sportsperson is pronounced /spɔɹtspɝsən/ (US).
What is the plural of sportsperson?
The plural of sportsperson is sportspersons.

Words near sportsperson in the dictionary

  1. sportsmedicine
  2. sportsmen
  3. sportsome
  4. sportspeak
  5. sportspeople
  6. sportsperson
  7. sportspersons
  8. sportspersonship
  9. sportsplex
  10. sportsplexes
  11. sportster

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sportsperson (page history and authors); sportsperson (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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