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Someone who engages in sports
Answer for the clue "Someone who engages in sports ", 11 letters:
sportswoman
Word definitions for sportswoman in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who engages in sports [syn: sport , sportsman ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A naturally gifted sportswoman , she became a proficient sculler, horsewoman, and mountaineer, and even mastered billiards. ▪ At 19, therefore, Lynsey has already achieved more than most sportsmen and sportswomen dream of. ▪ ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context UK English) A woman who engages in sports. A female athlete.
Usage examples of sportswoman.
She is a good, all-round sportswoman, is the pretty girl in the picture.
She was Ina Malden, sportswoman, who spent most of her time hunting and adventuring on other worlds, or crossing the void between them.
Spacer Mike Ross, in trouble with the authorities, is hired by a wealthy and eccentric sportswoman to captain an expedition in search of the almost mythical adventurer, Lawrence Knight, and his telepathic robot.
But an all-round sportswoman with a degree from Oxford and a budding career in politics makes a timid primary school teacher look and feel drab by comparison.
She was a true young sportswoman, and could fish almost as well as her parent.
She was a sportswoman and, despite her lack of frailty, had led an outdoor life and possessed a nerve of steel.
Lady Cookham is about as good a specimen of the thoroughly practical, strong-minded English sportswoman as one could meet anywhere.