Sportsman
Full definition of sportsman
Noun
sportsman
(plural sportsmen)- (UK) A man who engages in sports. A male athlete.
- (dated) A man who engages in country sports, such as hunting or fishing.
- 1851, Herman Melville, ,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.