Sportsman vs Athletic - What's the difference?
sportsman | athletic |
(UK) A man who engages in sports. A male athlete.
(dated) A man who engages in country sports, such as hunting or fishing.
* 1851 ,
(not comparable) having to do with athletes
* Are you a member of the American ''Athletic'' Association?
physically active
* Since you're such an ''athletic'' person, you may wish to consider joining.
having a muscular, well developed body, being in shape
* You have such an ''athletic'' build--you must work out regularly.
An attribute of a motion or play which requires fine physical ability
* The center fielder made an athletic play to snatch the ball from over the fence.
As a noun sportsman
is (uk) a man who engages in sports a male athlete.As a proper noun athletic is
(baseball) a player on the team oakland athletics.sportsman
English
(wikipedia sportsman)Noun
(sportsmen)- 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.
