Definitions
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- noun Someone who plays
sport , regardless of gender.
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Examples
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Oh, and I agree that the customer service at the gun counter was terrible at our local Walmart as well, they can display fishing items-as self serve-and have no need to have a true "sportsperson" running the department.
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Apart from the advertisements in print and visual media and sponsorship, one of the recent trends is to advertise a brand (ie of goods, services, events, business houses bearing a particular brand name or house name) usually by using a celebrity (such as sportsperson, film stars, etc) to associate him/her with the brand.
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Palin is a vapid, air-headed, politico whose support of the aerial gunning of wolves completely obviates any right she has to be considered a sportsperson.
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She was the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year in 2008, the first disabled sportsperson to win the award.
Everything you need to know about the London 2012 Paralympics 2011
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In Michigan, you the sportsperson have the right to fish in navigable streams, up to this ordinary high water mark.
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Palin is a vapid, air-headed, politico whose support of the aerial gunning of wolves completely obviates any right she has to be considered a sportsperson.
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He is no kinds of sportsperson, I doubt he could walk a mile on level ground.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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He is no kinds of sportsperson, I doubt he could walk a mile on level ground.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Considering all the doping and match-fixing and racist abuse and whatnot, it's rather sweet that a top sportsperson disdaining their sport is still such a taboo.
Serena Williams's love for shopping over playing is telling for tennis | Marina Hyde 2012
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He is no kinds of sportsperson, I doubt he could walk a mile on level ground.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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