sportsman vs sportsperson

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). 

sportsperson

noun
  • Someone who plays sport, regardless of gender. 

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