Associations to the word «Sportsmanship»

Wiktionary

SPORTSMANSHIP, noun. The behaviour exhibited in playing sports, either good or bad.
SPORTSMANSHIP, noun. The good attitude/behaviour displayed by players of a game; fairness, determination, winning or losing gracefully.

Dictionary definition

SPORTSMANSHIP, noun. Fairness in following the rules of the game.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope