A person who practises physical exercise; an athlete. Obsolete. rare.

A person who takes part in a sport or game; one who is competent or skilful at a sport or game; (also) a person who represents a sports team or…

A person who provides, or is inclined to engage in, amusement, diversion, or pleasure; spec. (originally Scottish) †a person who entertains or amuses…

gen. A player of any game; a participant in or enthusiast for a sport or pastime.

A person who is concerned with, or inclined to engage in, sport.

Chiefly depreciative. A man who engages in amusement, recreation, or pleasure, esp. of a wanton or excessive kind. In later use: (U.S. slang) a…

Sport. A person who arranges sporting contests, esp. boxing matches. In early use also: a person who enters into a sporting match.

A sportsman or sportswoman; esp. = sportsman, n. 1. Now rare.

a rural parson who participates in hunting, shooting, or fishing, esp. one (often as a type) who takes as much, if not more, interest in field…

A person who engages in or takes an interest in games or sports.

A person concerned with or interested in sport; a sportsman or sportswoman. A person who follows or participates in sport. Now rare.

A man (occasionally a woman) who participates in games or athletic activities, esp. professionally.

A woman who takes part in games or athletic activities, esp. professionally. (Now the usual sense.)

British (originally University slang). Originally: a college or university student who enters heartily into sports and collegiate life, as opposed…

An athletic (as distinguished from an aesthetic or intellectual) man (esp. one at a university); a ‘hearty’. North American slang.

= jockstrap, n. 2.