Definitions
Person who takes part in sports, especially with fair play.
Word origin
From sports + -man.
Used in a sentence
“On the contrary, the difference between the worse male and female sportsmen was 54 ms. Among the male sportsmen [...]. Among the female sportsmen [...]”
“In both cases the female sportsmen were Nordic skiers.”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Fair player”9 letters
02“Athlete”9 letters
Not quite right?
"Search similar patterns."
S________