All sportsperson synonyms

noun sportsperson

• athlete — An athlete is a person who does a sport, especially athletics, or track and field events.
• gorilla — the largest of the anthropoid apes, Gorilla gorilla, terrestrial and vegetarian, of western equatorial Africa and the Kivu highlands, comprising the subspecies G. g. gorilla (western lowland gorilla) G. g. graueri (eastern lowland gorilla) and G. g. beringei (mountain gorilla) now rare.
• jock — Scot. and Irish English. a nickname for John. an innocent lad; country boy.
• fielder — an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
• competitor — A company's competitors are companies who are trying to sell similar goods or services to the same people.