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sportswriter

sportswriter

29 2.9
A journalist who writes about sports events and players
  • noun
  • /ˈspɔrtsˌraɪtər/
  • Literature
translation icon : periodista deportivo
  • After the match, the sportswriter interviewed the coach about the team's strategy.
  • sportswriter Frank Deford
  • sportswriter Christine Brennan
  • sportswriter Naylor

Examples

  • Have any of you guys read from many nationally known sportswriters over the past year?

    Blog text (24)
  • Bob, that gentleman you were just talking to, that's Grantland Rice, the sportswriter.

  • A sportswriter once wrote that he fought like the devil...

  • Sir, I am the most successful sportswriter in America and not merely a 'moderate success.'

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Send the sportswriter to the play; the drama critic is sick.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • Makes you proud to be a sportswriter, doesn't it?

  • So you're a sportswriter now.

  • As a novelist, I turned out to be a pretty good sportswriter.

  • Athletes, after all, are characters to a sportswriter, just as family members must be to a memoirist.

    Blog text (9)
  • I've been one of the highest-paid sportswriters for the past 14 years.

Synonyms

sports writer
vssportswriter
  • Literature
12 2.6

A reporter who writes about sports games and players

is written as a single word rather than two

How Analytical

pundit
  • Literature
131 6.7
sportswriter
  • Literature
29 2.9
sports commentator
  • Literature
8 3.6
sports announcer
  • Literature
2 2.9

Surface Forms

sportswriter singular
sportswriters plural

Morphology

sportswriter = sport + writer (transparent) = sports + writer

Clearly a compound meaning 'a writer who writes about sports'; B1 learners who know 'sport' and 'writer' can infer the meaning.

Etymology

Sportswriter joins sport, which originally meant 'play' or 'enjoyment', and writer, meaning 'someone who writes'. So, a sportswriter is someone who writes about games, matches, and sports events.