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

Heaton’s youth was spent growing up in tiny Bay Village, Ohio, as the daughter of Chuck Heaton, a sportswriter for The Cleveland Plain Dealer. —Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2025

Eisenhower did play football at West Point and was considered a promising halfback by East Coast sportswriters. —Bill Swank, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025

Real-life sportswriters, who many no longer read, expounding real-life opinions became a novelty. —Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2025

Basketball is the city game, as the sportswriter Pete Axthelm called it half a century ago, and its chief narrative, for decades, was about escaping the ghetto. —Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 23 June 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)