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.
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See -man.
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Though he settled in New York, Church, a born outdoorsman, responded with enthusiasm to the hiking and camping so often entailed by the job of landscape painting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
The statement described the California native as an "avid sailor and outdoorsman".
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025
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
An outdoorsman who has spent years in the military, Mr. Card knows guns and knows the region.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2023
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
"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
Both are young but experienced outdoorsmen who have been flown in and dropped at a barely mapped river in the middle of hundreds of miles of forest.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2019
For more than 30 years, the landing has allowed outdoorsmen and recreation lovers like Whitehead to take advantage of Delaware’s natural beauty in an area surrounded by urban sprawl.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2017
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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