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English
Etymology
From sports + -man.
Pronunciation
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 , 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
Descendants
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 (undongseonsu) (either gender), 선수 (ko) (seonsu) (either gender), 스포츠 선수 (seupocheu seonsu) (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)
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man who engages in country sports
Romanian
Noun
sportsman m (plural sportsmeni)
- Alternative form of sportsmen
Declension
