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

Clemens has the credentials necessary to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, but has not received the votes needed from sportswriters who elect the players each year to receive the honor. —Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 25 Aug. 2025

Richard Dunn, a longtime sportswriter, writes the Dunn Deal column regularly for The Orange County Register’s weekly, The Coastal Current North. —Richard Dunn, Oc Register, 21 Aug. 2025

The author and sportswriter Art Chansky grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, near Boston. —Paige Williams, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025

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

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)