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I need Your help with grammar since english is not my native language :)

I'm making an award look a like gift for my dear friend but I don't how to name his profession correctly - is it sport psychologist or sports psychologist?

I want to make a card with a sentence "World's best sport/s psychologist".

I've read some articles, book titles; facebook profession option says sport psychologist, while random dictionary goes with sports; it's different everytime, which form is correct? Even here on forum I've found some similar quoestions, but I'd like to know Your opinion about this specific one.

Thanks for Your help!:)

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    Put "Sports Psychologist". You cannot go wrong with that.
    – Cascabel_StandWithUkraine_
    Commented Nov 12, 2020 at 21:10
  • The problem with his profession is that in my case we are dealing with one sport, but he's a psychologist to athlets from other disciplines as well :/ I think I'll go with sports psychologist, tough maybeI'll make some more research :D Thank You!
    – nika
    Commented Nov 12, 2020 at 22:11

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Sports psychologist.

'Sports' here means 'relating to sport'. So, in this case, it isn't the plural of sport but an adjective (Cambridge Dictionary online).

Many other constructions follow the same pattern: sports journalist, sports teams, sports event, etc.

For better understanding (hopefuly), an unusual way to reword it would be 'sporting psychologist', where sporting also means 'relating to sport' (same reference), though maybe it wouldn't be so odd, since 'sporting journalist' is not entirely uncommon.

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  • British 'sport', US 'sports'.
    – Michael Harvey
    Commented Nov 13, 2020 at 7:29
  • @TwoBob Thanks for a specific explamtion:) Altough,why isn't it e.g. family's psychologist or childs psychologist but family psychologist/child psychologist then?
    – nika
    Commented Nov 13, 2020 at 12:20
  • @MichaelHarvey thanks, I think this is the most logical explanation in this twisted issue:)
    – nika
    Commented Nov 13, 2020 at 12:21

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