What's the difference between sportsman and sportsmen?
Sportsman
Definition:
(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.
Sportsmen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Sportsman
Example Sentences:
(1) 150 sportsmen with lesions and diseases of the lower extremity served as basis for demonstrating the possibilities offered by diagnosis via sonography.
(2) The morphometrical data of the skaters muscle fiber are compared with the muscle parameters (according to the literature data) of the m. vastus lateralis in high qualification sportsmen of other specialization and in nontrained persons.
(3) Ten smoker sportsmen and 17 non-smoker sportsmen and 41 smoker non-sportsmen were studied.
(4) These results indicated that the smoker sportsmen, despite exhibiting some degree of lung function impairment in relation to non-smoker sportsmen, still maintained rather better lung function status than the smoker non-sportsmen.
(5) This has led to lasting damage especially in young competitive sportsmen in whom the vertebral column had not yet developed to full maturity.
(6) She says she understands why more gay sportsmen and women don't come out, even though the culture is more liberal than it was in the Seventies and Eighties.
(7) Consequently, even moderate dehydration of an organism practised by some sportsmen leads to considerable change in certain values of carbohydrate metabolism.
(8) In research work involving participation of highly trained sportsmen-heavy athletes subject to studies was the effect of the proteinic product CII-11, developed at the Nutrition Institute of the AMS of the USSR, on the body mass gain, as well as on individual aspects, of the protein and catecholamines metabolism.
(9) Blood plasma of sportsmen was examined--of healthy persons and of those with the syndrome of myocardial overstraining under conditions of rest and intensive bicycle ergometric exercises.
(10) 121 fractures occurred in athletes and 21 in non-competitive sportsmen.
(11) For example, pentathlon and basketball sportsmen exhibit in their kinesthetic analyser the greatest number of minimum increases of sensation, namely 30.2 and 21.4 respectively, while those not engaged in any sport, 15.0.
(12) Surgical treatment can be recommended for younger individuals, manual workers, and sportsmen, and rarely for cosmetic reasons, or when a subacromial impingement due to a disturbing proximal tendon stump is present.
(13) During exercise-tests sportsmen performed better than controls, with significantly longer duration of effort and greater maximal oxygen consumption.
(14) Sports Consulting clinics, since the foundation of the first one in 1924, served all sportsmen and visitors.
(15) Of the 26 sportsmen without ventricular late potentials five had left-ventricular hypertrophy.
(16) Politicians, leading actors and sportsmen are believed to be among those who are preparing to sue.
(17) Many sportsmen and women are left to search for an appropriate insurance cover themselves or remain uninsured.
(18) The examination of the spine in sportsmen is imperative.
(19) In the group of sportsmen with EMS treatment (low frequency constant frequency programme with mini-stimulant twice daily 15 minutes) these parameters are about 30% above those of the group without EMS.
(20) Follow-up studies and clinical examinations proved that in 86 sportsmen these arrhythmias were not a symptom of heart disease.