sportsman

See also: Sportsman

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Etymology

From sports +‎ -man.

Pronunciation

Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

sportsman (plural sportsmen)

(UK) A man who engages in sports; an athlete.
- 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 Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University in Prague [Prague, 19-21 June 2013], page 237:
  On the contrary, the difference between the worse male and female sportsmen was 54 ms. Among the male sportsmen [...]. Among the female sportsmen [...]
- 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 Athletes):
  In both cases the female sportsmen were Nordic skiers.
(dated) A man who engages in country sports, such as hunting or fishing.
- 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:
  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.
A man who exhibits good sportsmanship, or who exhibits sportsmanship as specified (good or bad).

Derived terms

Related terms

sportswoman

Descendants

→ Korean: 스포츠맨 (seupocheumaen)
→ Russian: спортсме́н (sportsmén)
→ Welsh: sbortsmon

Translations

(male) athlete

Albanian: sportist (sq) m, atlet (sq) m
Arabic: رِيَاضِيّ m (riyāḍiyy)
Egyptian Arabic: رياضي m (reyāḍi)
Armenian: սպորտսմեն (hy) (sportsmen), մարզիկ (hy) (marzik)
Azerbaijani: idmançı (az) (either gender)
Belarusian: спартсме́н m (spartsmjén), спарто́вец m (spartóvjec), атле́т m (atljét)
Bulgarian: спорти́ст (bg) m (sportíst), атле́т m (atlét)
Burmese: အားကစားသမား (a:ka.ca:sa.ma:)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 運動員／运动员 (zh) (yùndòngyuán) (either gender)
Czech: sportovec (cs) m
Danish: sportsmand c, idrætsmand c
Dutch: sportman (nl) m
Esperanto: sportisto
Estonian: sportlane (either gender)
Finnish: urheilija (fi) (either gender)
French: sportif (fr) m, athlète (fr) m or f
Georgian: სპორტსმენი (ka) (sṗorṭsmeni), ათლეტი (atleṭi)
German: Sportler (de) m, Athlet (de) m
Greek: αθλητικός τύπος m (athlitikós týpos), αθλητικός (el) m (athlitikós), αθλητής (el) m (athlitís)
Hebrew: סְפּוֹרְטַאי (he) m (sportái)
Hindi: खिलाड़ी m (khilāṛī)
Hungarian: sportoló (hu) (either gender)
Icelandic: íþróttamaður (is) m
Indonesian: olahragawan (id)
Italian: sportivo (it) m
Japanese: 運動選手 (ja) (うんどうせんしゅ, undō senshu) (either gender), 選手 (ja) (せんしゅ, senshu) (either gender), スポーツ選手 (スポーツせんしゅ, supōtsu senshu) (either gender), スポーツマン (ja) (supōtsuman)
Kazakh: спортшы (sportşy) (either gender)
Khmer: អត្តពលិក (ʼattaʼpŏəllɨk) (either gender), អ្នកកីឡា (nĕək kəylaa) (either gender)
Korean: 운동선수(運動選手) (undongseonsu) (either gender), 스포츠맨 (seupocheumaen)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: werziştkar (ku) m
Kyrgyz: спортчу (ky) (sportcu) (either gender)
Lao: ນັກກິລາ (lo) (nak ki lā)
Latvian: sportists m, atlēts m
Lithuanian: sportininkas m
Macedonian: спорти́ст m (sportíst)
Malay: olahragawan (ms) (either gender), ahli sukan, atlet (either gender)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: тамирчин (mn) (tamirčin) (either gender)

Mongolian: ᠲᠠᠮᠢᠷᠴᠢᠨ (tamirčin) (either gender)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: idrettsmann m

Nynorsk: idrettsmann m
Pashto: ورزشکار m (warzǝškãr)
Persian: ورزشکار (fa) (varzeškâr) (either gender)
Polish: sportowiec (pl) m, sportsmen (pl) m
Portuguese: esportivo (pt) m, esportista (pt) m or f
Romanian: sportiv (ro) m, atlet (ro) m
Russian: спортсме́н (ru) m (sportsmén), атле́т (ru) m (atlét)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: спортиста m, спо̀рта̄ш m (Croatia)

Roman: sportista m, spòrtāš (sh) m (Croatia)
Slovak: športovec m
Slovene: športnik (sl) m
Spanish: deportista (es) m or f
Swedish: idrottsman (sv) c, idrottare (sv) c
Tajik: варзишгар (varzišgar)
Tatar: спортчы (sportçı) (either gender)
Thai: นักกีฬา (th) (nák-gii-laa) (either gender)
Turkish: sporcu (tr) (either gender)
Turkmen: sportçy (either gender)
Ukrainian: спортсме́н m (sportsmén), спорто́вець m (sportóvecʹ), атле́т (uk) m (atlét)
Urdu: کهلڑی m (khilāṛī)
Uyghur: ئىسپورتچى (isportchi) (either gender)
Uzbek: sportchi (uz) (either gender), sportsmen (uz), atlet (uz)
Vietnamese: vận động viên (vi) (either gender), nhà thể thao (either gender)

man who engages in country sports

Finnish: erämies (fi)

Romanian

Noun

sportsman m (plural sportsmeni)

Alternative form of sportsmen

Declension

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
	singular		plural
nominative-accusative	sportsman	sportsmanul	sportsmeni	sportsmenii
genitive-dative	sportsman	sportsmanului	sportsmeni	sportsmenilor
vocative	sportsmanule		sportsmenilor