sportsman

[US]/ˈspɔːtsmən/

[UK]/ˈspɔːrtsmən/

Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. athlete a person who participates in sports competitions, usually possessing professional skills and physical abilities.

he had been a keen sportsman in his youth.

a hodman is an architect, a jockey is a sportsman, a wood-louse is a pterigybranche.

His brother is a sportsman of our school.

Everybody thinks he is an all-round sportsman.

The newspaper publishes a profile of a leading sportsman every week.

He could have been a sportsman. Who?

Source: Downton Abbey Detailed Analysis

Tom Brady is an iconic sportsman whom people know, see and admire.

Source: Time

He was a real sportsman, even if he's not very well known.

Source: New Standard High School English Compulsory Volume 5 by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press

Danny Morales is an experienced sportsman, so this task was nothing out of the ordinary for him.

Source: VOA Daily Standard October 2019 Collection

In fact there is one very popular sportsman who retired after a long time in the job.

Source: 6 Minute English

He's so agile, isn't he? He could have been a sportsman. - Who? - Thomas, of course.

Source: Downton Abbey (Audio Segmented Version) Season 1

They said, Why should my son be running quick? We don't want him to be a sportsman.

Source: BBC documentary "Chinese Teachers Are Coming"

Among 80 sportsmen competing for medals 16 are Americans.

Source: VOA Standard English_Americas

And, on top of these, he had also to tolerate the particular horrors suffered by America's black sportsmen.

Source: The Economist - Arts

We are sportsmen so we do a lot of sports.

Source: VOA Special August 2016 Collection

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