sportsman
IPA: spˈɔrtsmʌn
noun
- (UK) A man who engages in sports; an athlete.
- (dated) A man who engages in country sports, such as hunting or fishing.
- A man who exhibits good sportsmanship, or who exhibits sportsmanship as specified (good or bad).
- A surname from Dutch.
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Examples of "sportsman" in Sentences
- He was voted as the sportsman of the year.
- He was awarded the ABC Sportsman of the Year award.
- He won the 2008 Kenyan Sportsman of the Year Award.
- The station also aired The Sportsman Channel overnight.
- In 2005 he was awarded the Best Outdoor Sportsman ESPY.
- Rafaqat Ali is the most famous sportsman of the village.
- Also, the Sportsman of the Year isn't part of the it either.
- At the end of the year he was named Dutch Sportsman of the year.
- He was also the sportsman of the year and captain of the soccer team.
- Sword was a keen natural historian and sportsman and with skills in taxidermy.
- A good sportsman is who plays the game fairly and admits the defeat gracefully.
- (And what happened to non-fiction writing in sportsman's magazines?) 0 Good Comment?
- Golfing sportsman is right it is probably the gun that has killed the most game but as far as fitting me it isn't even close.
- You have at last become prudent: you are no longer what you call a sportsman: you are a sensible coward, almost a grown-up man.
- As someone posted a while back, I believe a feller named Dennis, the most important thing we can do as sportsman is to teach young folks.
- Where i live the Wardems are running New boats Multiple big outboards, new trucks, ATV's maybe California needs to talk to Alabama causes they are already licenseing the sportsman from the field.
- Hagen and other experts who treat back injuries in sportsman-heavy areas like western Pennsylvania attest that the outdoors — its irregular and slick terrain; the rigors of dragging a 150-pound deer through the woods — can be particularly fertile ground for back injuries.
- The cover's just as much mine as it's his, 'observed Jack;' it belongs to old Sir Timothy Tensthemain, who's vegetating at Boulogne-sur-Mer, but Puff says he'll buy it when it comes to the hammer, so we'll flatter him by considering it his already, just as we flatter him by calling him a sportsman -- _sportsman_! 'added Jack, with a sneer,' he's just as much taste for the thing as a cow. '
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