(n.) One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Following an episode of angina, the younger brother, a sportsman, but a smoker, developed an antero-septal infarct at rest, which was complicated by complete persistent right bundle branch block.
(2) He was a pioneer sexologist, demographer, and sportsman and an early Zionist.
(3) The owner of Biogenesis, the now-closed Florida anti-aging clinic , said in an interview with CBS TV show "60 Minutes" that the 38-year-old sportsman paid him $12,000 per month for an assortment of banned drugs including testosterone and human growth hormone.
(4) He's been the league MVP for two years in a row, he's the reigning NBA finals MVP, he led Team USA to a gold medal in last summer's Olympics, he's on this year's All-Defense first team, oh and there's that Sports Illustrated's sportsman of the year thing … OK, you get the idea, there's a lot of compelling evidence out there that suggests that the dude knows how to play basketball.
(5) Following the extensive technical progress in monitoring of sports performance, putting certain physiological principles out of reach for the everyday sportsman, we wondered if perceived effort (PE) as described by Borg is a parameter that is of use, or complementary, to the determination of the anaerobic threshold (AT) during an incremental test on a treadmill on one hand and to prescribing exercise adapted to the type of metabolic load on the other.
(6) An important result of the laboratory experiment was that whereas a ski boot can be moved without difficulty into a strong forward lean position of the skier by an experienced sportsman, a beginner can only assume a forward lean with 20% less inclination (this being a significant difference).
(7) He has to reconnect, feel like a sportsman again, feel useful, feel healthy.
(8) The periodical health examination should be done before any exercise event with emphasis on the cardiovascular system so that the old sportsman can choose the proper exercise item and take self-control during the exercise.
(9) To the condemnation of some of his colleagues, Hemming, who has been campaigning on the issue, exercised parliamentary privilege to identify the star at the centre of the injunction just minutes after the high court refused to lift a ban on naming the sportsman.
(10) Clack was also a keen sportsman, and represented the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and his battalion at rugby.
(11) As far as the sportsman is concerned, this entails only brief loss of training and the possibility to avoid muscular atrophy of the affected leg by means of physiotherapeutic exercise.
(12) The deal will make Beckham the second highest-paid sportsman in the US, a remarkable statistic given he will ply his trade in a minority sport associated with swing-voter "soccer moms" and primarily practised by teenage girls.
(13) The third patient, a keen water-sportsman and resident in the endemic area for a period of 10 years, presented with a mild infection, probably due to acquired immunity initiated during previous contacts with infected water; he took about a year to recover.
(14) If you eat a cake, you're putting in diesel; a sportsman's got to run off super.
(15) I’ve never come across it in sport because you’re a sportsman, it’s a macho thing, so it never enters your head.” If we are going to be generous, they were different times and there were lots of clubs in those days operating with these attitudes.
(16) 28-year-old sportsman developed chest pain, dyspnoea, haemoptysis and swelling of the right leg.
(17) He is a keen sportsman and swims or pumps iron every day in one of several gyms at his home and offices.
(18) Within an hour of a judge refusing to lift an injunction barring the naming of the sportsman at the heart of an anonymous privacy injunction, a Liberal Democrat backbencher, John Hemming, stood up in the Commons chamber yesterday and named Manchester United's Ryan Giggs as the mystery claimant.
(19) A sportsman gets praised and we love that but you get criticised too.
(20) We report about a stress fracture of the lateral neck of femur of a 51 years old sportsman which was operated with an angled blade plate 130 degrees.
Sportsmanship
Definition:
(n.) The practice of sportsmen; skill in field sports.
Example Sentences:
(1) In just a few seconds of post-game rant he set off discussions on race, sportsmanship, pop culture, and get this, even football.
(2) He said that if he was successful, any damages should go back to Fifa for investment in football development, adding: “At Fifa, money and power have blinded Mr Blatter to the virtues of sportsmanship.
(3) New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, who retires this season, has won over hundreds of thousands of fans and our tribute video gives a hat-tip to his remarkable sportsmanship.
(4) The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of a task and ego goal orientation (i.e., the tendency to focus on personal mastery or beating others, respectively) to sportsmanship attitudes and perceptions of the legitimacy of aggressive acts by testing this assumption in the context of interscholastic sport.
(5) But I still admired his quick and accurate decision-making and his skilful feigned attempt at a tackle, if not his dastardly lack of sportsmanship and fair play.” You might just be the only one all right and by admitting that he was “out of position then outpaced” you can see why he could well be City’ undoing this afternoon if a player like Johnson, for example, gets to take him on today.
(6) He was awarded Fifa's fair play award in 2001 in recognition of his "special act of good sportsmanship".
(7) Match-fixing is the latest in a line of scandals to have tarnished the reputation of sumo, whose exponents are expected to display sportsmanship inside the ring, and dignity and humility outside it.
(8) As Premier League soccer is again soiled with prima donna antics – see the scratch-and-send-off controversy of Torres at Spurs at the weekend – the hand-eye co-ordination and the courage and commitment of Cork and Clare were a shining example of sportsmanship.
(9) Eliminating violence and body checking for prepubertal boys while emphasizing rule enforcement and good sportsmanship are recommended.
(10) One legacy of these Games worth having would be a demand from the replica-shirt buying public, long fed "the price of everything" ethos of the Premiership, for a resurgence in values of sportsmanship.
(11) Data analysis suggests two interventions in training programmes for coaches: the development of teaching material on body checking and on individual counselling techniques to impart sportsmanship attitudes to young players.
(12) Using the basic methods of prevention, along with good sportsmanship, safe participation in any sport may be anticipated.
(13) Gender differences in goal orientation, sportsmanship attitudes, and legitimacy ratings were observed.
(14) Kane was actually offside when he struck the ball and it was a nice touch from Pellegrini to wait for the officials at the end and, showing great sportsmanship, shake everyone’s hand when many other managers might have been tempted to spread some blame.
(15) Kicking, swearing and running around with one's shirt pulled over one's head are some of the other signs of sportsmanship that might get you kicked out of Glyndebourne.
(16) 7.13pm BST Great sportsmanship from Nadal, who acknowledges the support of the crowd and applauds all four corners of the ground.
(17) Today’s players may present a pristine image of good sportsmanship, but some old-fashioned attitudes about women still linger in the locker room.