sportsman

English

sports +‎ -man.

sportsman (plural sportsmen)

(Britain) 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, Moby Dick, chapter 3
  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.

male athlete

Arabic: رِيَاضِيّ‎ m (riyāḍiyy)
Egyptian Arabic: رياضي‎ m (reyaaḍi)
Armenian: սպորտսմեն (hy) (sportsmen), մարզիկ (hy) (marzik)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 運動員 (zh), 运动员 (zh) (yùndònɡyuán) (either gender), 男運動員, 男运动员 (nányùndònɡyuán)
Czech: sportovec (cs) m
Esperanto: sportisto
Finnish: urheilija (fi)
French: sportif (fr) m
Georgian: სპორტსმენი (ka) (sṗorṭsmeni)
German: (männlicher) Sportler m
Greek: αθλητικός τύπος m (athlitikós týpos), αθλητικός (el) m (athlitikós), αθλητής (el) m (athlitís)
Hebrew: סְפּוֹרְטַאי‎ (he) (sportái)
Hungarian: sportoló (hu)

man who engages in country sports

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