outdoorsman

[ out-dawrz-muhn, -dohr- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural out·doors·men.

a person devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities, as hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping.
a person who spends much time in the outdoors.

See -man.

First recorded in 1955–60; outdoors + -man

When he arrived there, the disheveled outdoorsman was greeted at the airport by hundreds of fans.

The nearby Sears store delivered a sleeping bag, Coleman stove, and all sorts of camping gear for the modern outdoorsman.

Wherever Al might be, that outdoorsman was warm, dry and even comfortable.

The skin was slightly tanned, but it was the tan of a man who goes to the beach on summer weekends, not that of an outdoorsman.

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