SPORTSMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sportsman mean? 

• SPORTSMAN (noun)
  The noun SPORTSMAN has 1 sense:

1. someone who engages in sports

  Familiarity information: SPORTSMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPORTSMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who engages in sports

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

sport; sportsman; sportswoman

Hypernyms ("sportsman" is a kind of...):

athlete; jock (a person trained to compete in sports)

Derivation:

sportsmanship (fairness in following the rules of the game)

 Context examples 

“I think, Harrison, that you are too good a sportsman to prevent your nephew from showing whether he takes after his uncle.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I had not thought of that. This weather will keep many sportsmen in the country."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

If he is a sportsman he will be tickled.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Of course it has the sort of excitement about it that the sportsman feels when he lies beside the water-course and waits for the big game.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some time passed before I felt tranquil even here: I had a vague dread that wild cattle might be near, or that some sportsman or poacher might discover me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

On Tuesday there was a large party assembled at Longbourn; and the two who were most anxiously expected, to the credit of their punctuality as sportsmen, were in very good time.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“The London criminal is certainly a dull fellow,” said he in the querulous voice of the sportsman whose game has failed him.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Charles shewed himself at the window, all was ready, their visitor had bowed and was gone, the Miss Musgroves were gone too, suddenly resolving to walk to the end of the village with the sportsmen: the room was cleared, and Anne might finish her breakfast as she could.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He was a sportsman, was Godfrey, down to his marrow, and he wouldn’t have stopped his training and let in his skipper if it were not for some cause that was too strong for him.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“A good sportsman, nephew,” said he.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)