sportswoman

English

Etymology

From sports +‎ -woman.

Pronunciation

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Noun

sportswoman (plural sportswomen)

1. (UK) A woman who engages in sports; a female athlete.

Translations

woman who engages in sports

• Albanian: sportiste (sq) f
• Arabic: رِيَاضِيَّة (ar) f (riyāḍiyya)

  Egyptian Arabic: رياضية f (reyāḍeya)

• Belarusian: спартсме́нка f (spartsmjénka), спарто́ўка f (spartóŭka), атле́тка f (atljétka)
• Bulgarian: спорти́стка f (sportístka), атле́тка f (atlétka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 運動員 / 运动员 (zh) (yùndòngyuán) (either gender), 女運動員 / 女运动员 (nǚ yùndòngyuán)

• Czech: sportovkyně (cs) f
• Danish: sportskvinde c, idrætskvinde c
• Dutch: sportvrouw (nl) f
• Esperanto: sportistino
• Finnish: urheilijatar, urheilija (fi)
• French: sportive (fr) f
• German: Sportlerin (de) f
• Greek: αθλήτρια (el) f (athlítria)
• Icelandic: íþróttakona f
• Italian: sportiva (it) f
• Japanese: スポーツウーマン (supōtsu ūman) (specific, uncommon)
• Korean: 스포츠우먼 (seupocheuumeon) (specific, uncommon)
• Latvian: sportiste f
• Lithuanian: sportininkė f
• Macedonian: спорти́стка f (sportístka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: idrettskvinne m or f

• Polish: sportsmenka (pl) f
• Portuguese: esportiva (pt) f
• Romanian: sportivă (ro) f
• Russian: спортсме́нка (ru) f (sportsménka), атле́тка (ru) f (atlétka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: спортисткиња f

  Roman: sportiskinja f

• Slovak: športovkyňa f
• Slovene: športnica f
• Spanish: deportista (es) m or f
• Swedish: idrottskvinna (sv) c
• Ukrainian: спортсме́нка f (sportsménka), спорто́вка f (sportóvka), атле́тка f (atlétka)

See also

• sportsman

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spɔʁt.swo.man/

Noun

sportswoman f (plural sportswomans)

1. sportswoman

Further reading

• “sportswoman”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.