outdoorswomanship

English

Etymology

From outdoorswoman +‎ -ship.

Noun

outdoorswomanship (uncountable)

1. Women’s skill in, or fondness for, outdoor pursuits or sports.

   Coordinate term: outdoorsmanship

   • 1967 December 2, P.L.H., “The Weekend Bookshelf: Local Adventure, Calgary Bank Robbers Retreat to the Rockies”, in The Albertan, Calgary, Alta.: The Albertan Division of F. P. Publications Limited, page 4, column 5:

     One is sure that love, grit and outdoorswomanship will pull Fay Hartigan through whatever may betide her.

   • 2011 October 6, Tom Cox, “Nature and nurture on a foraging foray in Norfolk”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-01:

     She looked terrific for her age: a living advert for wild eating and north Norfolk outdoorswomanship.

   • 2012 May 6, Tim Brouk, “M-16s, arrows and mom”, in Journal & Courier, volume 94, number 127, Lafayette, Ind., page C4, column 1:

     Arriving in a bright yellow SUV and donning a camouflage miniskirt and matching wedge heels, Mary Kindschy of Crystal Lake, Ill., joined the weekend to bolster her outdoorswomanship to help with her job as host of the “Outdoor Angel” show for Mary Kay.

   • 2014 June 19, Sue Nichols, “Women cast into fly fishing”, in Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability‎^[2], East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University, archived from the original on 2020-08-12:

     MSU Fly Gals is a program underwritten by the Boone and Crockett Club to foster a love, understanding and respect of fly fishing and outdoorswomanship.

   • 2021 July 6, Alexandra Lange, “Progress by design: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, on-brand even when hiking, knows how to get points across”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[3], Los Angeles, Calif., →ISSN, archived from the original on 2021-07-06, page E3, column 3:

     In her story, Ocasio-Cortez is wearing a striped shirt and a neck gaiter, and I couldn’t help thinking of the Girl Scout uniform, with its signature scarf, as an earlier American vision of self-sufficiency and outdoorswomanship in which Ocasio-Cortez now visually inserts herself.