Definition of "sportsman" [sports•man]

• A man who is active in sports. (noun)
• A person whose conduct and attitude exhibit sportsmanship. (noun)

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• "The cover's just as much mine as it's his, 'observed Jack;' it belongs to old Sir Timothy Tensthemain, who's vegetating at Boulogne-sur-Mer, but Puff says he'll buy it when it comes to the hammer, so we'll flatter him by considering it his already, just as we flatter him by calling him a sportsman -- _sportsman_! 'added Jack, with a sneer,' he's just as much taste for the thing as a cow. '"
• "You have at last become prudent: you are no longer what you call a sportsman: you are a sensible coward, almost a grown-up man."
• "Where i live the Wardems are running New boats Multiple big outboards, new trucks, ATV's maybe California needs to talk to Alabama causes they are already licenseing the sportsman from the field."