outdoorsman
Americannoun
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outdoorsmen
plural
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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
A Stanford-educated attorney and an ardent outdoorsman, Paul Norton “Pete” McCloskey Jr. died Wednesday at his home in Winters, Calif., said longtime family friend Lee Houskeeper.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 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
Kermit was always a good companion and an excellent outdoorsman, possessing the same relentless endurance as his father.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
For the following eight decades, 26 deaths and 16 captures were reported but not verified, as were 271 reports made by people that Dr. Brook’s team considered experts: former trappers, outdoorsmen, scientists or officials.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
"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
We come from different parties, but we are both avid outdoorsmen and represent states that take great pride in the resources we provide to the nation and to friends and allies around the world.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2019
None of the outdoorsmen or landowners chimed in, the state said.
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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