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.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of outdoorsman
Example Sentences
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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
As for Leon, he wasn’t much of an outdoorsman, and was leery of any critter that wasn’t wearing a collar and a rabies tag.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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