sportsmanship

«sportsmanship» in Mova's school dictionary: Playing fairly and kindly in sport or games: following… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (sportsmanship — uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

Playing fairly and kindly in sport or games: following the rules, respecting the other team and the referee, and being a good winner and a good loser. tree →

sense in the lessons

In PE lessons and school sports days, teachers reward good sportsmanship: shaking hands after a match, helping a player who fell, not cheating and not sulking. In stories, a character who shows sportsmanship is admired even if they lose. Phrases: good sportsmanship, show sportsmanship, sportsmanship award.

examples

• Shaking hands after the game shows good sportsmanship. tree →
• She won the sportsmanship award. tree →
• Cheating is bad sportsmanship. tree →
• He stopped to help the runner who fell; that was real sportsmanship. tree →
• Say "well played" to the other team. tree →
• Our coach cares about sportsmanship more than winning. tree →

note

Uncountable: "good sportsmanship", not "a sportsmanship". A "good sport" is a person who plays fairly and takes losing well. Some people say "sporting behaviour" or "fair play", which mean the same thing.

In the corpora

• Sportsmanship means playing fairly, winning without boasting and losing without sulking.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sportsmanship» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.