A sportsmanship has been defined as a person who can take loss or defeat without complaint, or victory without gloating, and who treats his opponent with fairness, generosity, and courtesy.Sportsmanship can be conceptualized as an enduring and relatively stable characteristic or disposition such that individuals differ in the way they are generally expected to behave in sport situations. In general, sportsmanship refers to virtues such as fairness, self-control, courage, and persistence, and has been associated with interpersonal concepts of treating others and being treated fairly, maintaining self-control if dealing with others, and respect for both authority and opponents. Sportsmanship is also looked at as being the way one reacts to a sport/game/player.Sportsmanship is defined as ethical, appropriate, polite and fair behavior while participating in a game or athletic event.
