Sportsmanship is playing fairly and losing gracefully. Show sportsmanship, poor sportsmanship, a sportsmanship award.
The losing part is the harder half and the part the word is really about: winning well costs nothing. Several sports have formal awards for it, and in some the referee may penalise its absence directly.
1nounsportsmanshipPlaying fairly and losing gracefully.
“Showing good sportsmanship, the losing team shook hands with the winners.”
sportsmanship is a conduct.
From sports + -manship.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Games & Toys