sportsmanship

English

Etymology

sportsman +‎ -ship

Noun

sportsmanship (usually uncountable, plural sportsmanships)

1. The good attitude/behaviour displayed by players of a game; fairness, determination, magnanimity, courtesy towards opponents, and winning or losing gracefully.
2. The behaviour exhibited in playing sports, either good or bad.

Translations

(good) behavior in sports

• Arabic: رُوح رِيَاضِيَّة f (rūḥ riyāḍiyya)
• Bulgarian: спортсменство (bg) n (sportsmenstvo)
• Catalan: esportivitat f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 體育精神／体育精神 (tǐyù jīngshén)

• Finnish: urheiluhenki (fi), urheilijamaisuus
• French: sportivité (fr) f
• Galician: deportividade (gl) f
• German: Fairness (de) f
• Greek: αθλητικό πνεύμα n (athlitikó pnévma)
• Indonesian: sportivitas (id)
• Italian: sportività (it) f
• Japanese: スポーツマンシップ (supōtsumanshippu)
• Korean: 스포츠맨 정신 (seupocheumaen jeongsin), 정정당당한 태도 (jeongjeongdangdanghan taedo)
• Macedonian: спо́ртски дух m (spórtski duh)
• Portuguese: espírito esportivo m
• Spanish: deportividad, espíritu deportivo m, juego limpio m
• Welsh: sbortsmonaeth m, chwarae teg m

See also

• good sport
• poor sport

Further reading

• sportsmanship on Wikipedia.Wikipedia