outdoorsman
Americannoun
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a person devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities, as hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping.
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a person who spends much time in the outdoors.
Gender
See -man.
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The statement described the California native as an "avid sailor and outdoorsman".
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025
This extraordinary man of parts was a novelist, nature writer, editor, environmentalist, political activist, outdoorsman and Zen master.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Although he’s an outdoorsman who hunts wild boar in his free time, he said he still feels a connection to the city.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
Championing salmon issues came naturally to him as an outdoorsman, schooled by Nisqually tribal leaders now through two generations that if salmon are doing well, that is also good for people.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2024
He did not have the skills he would need to survive in the coming days, those of outdoorsman, hunter, or river boatman.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
Kennedy is also, fittingly for his family’s reputation for being full of robust outdoorsmen, a big proponent of getting outside into the woods—advice being made dangerous by the ticks.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2025
It grew from the vision of Pete Seibert and Earl Eaton, two outdoorsmen who envisioned a ski area in the rugged terrain not far from an Army alpine training center called Camp Hale.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2022
"I don’t think he can shoplift, live on the run, live in cheap hotels. On a one to 10 he’s probably a six, compared to the outdoorsmen and some of the guys I’ve captured."
From Fox News ● Sep. 25, 2021
This is why forgotten outdoorsmen may soon find modern surveillance cameras installed at trailheads.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2021
They were antique steel full moons, and when he put them on he invariably underwent a quiet transformation, becoming suddenly professorial, handsome in the way that some outdoorsmen are yet scholarly at the same time.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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