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Definition of sportsman in English: sportsmannounPlural sportsmen ˈspɔːtsmənˈspɔrtsmən 1A man who takes part in a sport, especially as a professional. Example sentencesExamples - During the 1930s he spent time in Spain and Africa and resided in Key West, Florida, where he gained a reputation as a sportsman and athlete.
- To begin your marketing adventure, head West, where 32 percent of all zealous American outdoor sportsmen live.
- During his 16-year career as a professional sportsman, Moran put his BComm from UCD and his accountancy qualification to good use.
- A different footballing culture, combined with a couple of ‘incidents’ that the Italians didn't find becoming of a professional sportsman, led to his return to England.
- An athlete and sportsman, he played football (as a goalkeeper), skied and was an avid theatregoer, at one time he even considered becoming an actor.
- Ice tobogganing is another thrilling sport which only an élite of sportsmen practise, although most of us have seen it on TV.
- His mother was a piano teacher, his father an official at a mine outside Johannesburg and a keen amateur sportsman (becoming South African marathon champion, no less).
- Still, he has a knowing charm, a sportsman's physique and the gift of the gab.
- A keen sportsman, he plays tennis and golf, as well as being an enthusiastic canoeist and sailor.
- For a lot of pro sportsmen that kind of trauma can send them off the rails.
- The nation sees its self-respect, its status, its success and failure, in the performance of a small number of young sportsmen on a field of play.
- Perhaps because he had been a champion sportsman in Europe, he idealised the athletic male body in his early sculptures.
- I have no objection to professional sportsmen but I don't think they derive the same pleasure from their exertions as the people who play sport primarily for enjoyment.
- He is now the highest-earning sportsman in the world and is expected to become a billionaire - the first sports person to achieve this - within the next decade.
- As a young man, he had striven to prove himself physically as a sportsman.
- Despite being one of the best paid sportsmen of a generation, he was declared bankrupt just one year after playing his last professional match.
- The Super 12 is a brutally tough competition, but the reality of being professional sportsmen is you've got to take the heat when you don't perform.
- Indeed, the interviews are very puffy, never once giving us real insight into the psyche and/or soul of a seasoned professional sportsman.
- Smith also enjoyed the Hurricanes' recent trip to South Africa, it was much better being over there as a sportsman rather than a tourist.
- The old adage of practice makes perfect applies here, that these sportsmen who now play almost all year long must also practice more than ever before.
Synonyms sportswoman, sportsperson - 1.1dated A man who hunts or shoots wild animals as a pastime.
Example sentencesExamples - Hemingway was a keen sportsman but he was fond of blood sports.
- A ‘gillie’, by the by, was originally an attendant on a Highland chief, but by the nineteenth century was a sportsman's attendant.
- The dogs are a reminder that the three friends were also keen sportsmen, and this journey would have provided them ample opportunities for indulgence.
- Among the draperies and furniture upholstered in this redundancy of plaids are other tropes of the sportsman's lodge - chandeliers, racks of antlers, hunting prints framed in plaids.
2A person who behaves sportingly. Example sentencesExamples - It might have been about having a choice between behaving like a sportsman or behaving like a boor and doing the latter because it suited him at the time.
Derivatives adjective ˈspɔːtsmənlʌɪk Accept the defeat and give credit to your opponent in a sportsmanlike manner. Example sentencesExamples - Afterwards, all the contenders did the sportsmanlike thing and praised each other.
- Just to show you I'm still willing to be sportsmanlike, I'll let you have another try.
- We're all adults here and I think everyone is sportsmanlike and takes it all in stride.
- Susan soon extended her tiny hand across the board for a sportsmanlike victory shake.
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Definition of sportsman in US English: sportsmannounˈspôrtsmənˈspɔrtsmən 1A man who takes part in a sport, especially as a professional. Example sentencesExamples - Still, he has a knowing charm, a sportsman's physique and the gift of the gab.
- He is now the highest-earning sportsman in the world and is expected to become a billionaire - the first sports person to achieve this - within the next decade.
- During the 1930s he spent time in Spain and Africa and resided in Key West, Florida, where he gained a reputation as a sportsman and athlete.
- I have no objection to professional sportsmen but I don't think they derive the same pleasure from their exertions as the people who play sport primarily for enjoyment.
- A different footballing culture, combined with a couple of ‘incidents’ that the Italians didn't find becoming of a professional sportsman, led to his return to England.
- To begin your marketing adventure, head West, where 32 percent of all zealous American outdoor sportsmen live.
- Despite being one of the best paid sportsmen of a generation, he was declared bankrupt just one year after playing his last professional match.
- An athlete and sportsman, he played football (as a goalkeeper), skied and was an avid theatregoer, at one time he even considered becoming an actor.
- Smith also enjoyed the Hurricanes' recent trip to South Africa, it was much better being over there as a sportsman rather than a tourist.
- During his 16-year career as a professional sportsman, Moran put his BComm from UCD and his accountancy qualification to good use.
- Ice tobogganing is another thrilling sport which only an élite of sportsmen practise, although most of us have seen it on TV.
- The nation sees its self-respect, its status, its success and failure, in the performance of a small number of young sportsmen on a field of play.
- The Super 12 is a brutally tough competition, but the reality of being professional sportsmen is you've got to take the heat when you don't perform.
- Perhaps because he had been a champion sportsman in Europe, he idealised the athletic male body in his early sculptures.
- The old adage of practice makes perfect applies here, that these sportsmen who now play almost all year long must also practice more than ever before.
- As a young man, he had striven to prove himself physically as a sportsman.
- Indeed, the interviews are very puffy, never once giving us real insight into the psyche and/or soul of a seasoned professional sportsman.
- For a lot of pro sportsmen that kind of trauma can send them off the rails.
- His mother was a piano teacher, his father an official at a mine outside Johannesburg and a keen amateur sportsman (becoming South African marathon champion, no less).
- A keen sportsman, he plays tennis and golf, as well as being an enthusiastic canoeist and sailor.
Synonyms sportswoman, sportsperson - 1.1 A person who behaves sportingly.
Example sentencesExamples - It might have been about having a choice between behaving like a sportsman or behaving like a boor and doing the latter because it suited him at the time.
- 1.2dated A man who hunts or shoots wild animals as a pastime.
Example sentencesExamples - Hemingway was a keen sportsman but he was fond of blood sports.
- A ‘gillie’, by the by, was originally an attendant on a Highland chief, but by the nineteenth century was a sportsman's attendant.
- The dogs are a reminder that the three friends were also keen sportsmen, and this journey would have provided them ample opportunities for indulgence.
- Among the draperies and furniture upholstered in this redundancy of plaids are other tropes of the sportsman's lodge - chandeliers, racks of antlers, hunting prints framed in plaids.
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