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

Some 26 years later, on April 20 — Easter Sunday — Price had recently finished her book and was getting ready for a Lucy Dacus show in Boston when her husband, Globe sportswriter Chris, handed her his phone. —Danielle Bacher, People.com, 6 Aug. 2025

Romano played the title character, a sportswriter dealing with a colorful family including wife Debra (Patricia Heaton), brother Robert (Brad Garrett), and parents Marie (Doris Roberts) and Frank (Peter Boyle). —Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2025

In this biography, former Enquirer and Cincinnati Post sportswriter Bill Koch takes us beyond a tragic football career and reveals Cook the man: his childhood in Chillicothe, his career at the University of Cincinnati and his life after football. —Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 30 July 2025

Co-created with TV critic Marvin Kitman and sportswriter Vic Ziegel, Bouton starred as a pitcher for the fictional Washington Americans. —Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 11 July 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)