sportswriter

noun

sports·​writ·​er ˈspȯrts-ˌrī-tər 

variants or less commonly sports writer or sports-writer

: a person who writes about sports especially for a newspaper

In an opening-day column for the Huntsville Times, one sportswriter beseeched readers not to let football poison friendship and provoke brawls.

—Steve Kemper

sportswriting

ˈspȯrts-ˌrī-tiŋ 

noun

or sports writing

Examples of sportswriter in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

American sportswriter Frank Deford perpetuated the apocryphal story of Leo Seltzer’s invention of roller derby. —Colleen English, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2025

John Feinstein, the Washington Post sportswriter and columnist who famously spent a season with temperamental Indiana University men’s basketball coach Bobby Knight to write the admired 1986 book A Season on the Brink, died Thursday. —Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2025

The honor is named after the groundbreaking Denver Post scribe Dorothy Mauk, the first full-time woman sportswriter at a major U.S. metropolitan daily newspaper. —Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 9 Mar. 2025

Miami Herald sportswriter Barry Jackson contributed to this report. —David J. Neal and, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1907, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for sportswriter

• exciter
• firefighter
• igniter
• lamplighter
• reciter
• screenwriter
• scriptwriter
• songwriter
• typewriter
• biter
• brighter
• fighter

Kids Definition

sportswriter

noun

sports·​writ·​er ˈspō(ə)rts-ˌrīt-ər 

ˈspȯ(ə)rts-

: a person who writes about sports (as for a newspaper)