fighter vs sportsman

fighter

noun
  • A pugnacious, competitive person. 

  • A warrior; a fighting soldier. 

  • A participant in boxing or any martial art. 

  • A person with a strong determination to resist protracted or severe adversity, especially illness. 

  • A firefighter. 

  • A person who fights; a combatant. 

  • A game with a focus on physical combat. 

  • A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is to shoot down other aircraft, sometimes accompanied by a secondary purpose of attacking ground targets. 

sportsman

noun
  • A man who engages in sports; an athlete. 

  • A man who exhibits good sportsmanship, or who exhibits sportsmanship as specified (good or bad). 

How often have the words fighter and sportsman occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )