outdoorsman
noun
a person devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities, as hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping.
outdoorsmen
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pluralof outdoorsman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
