sportsman vs adult female

sportsman and adult female both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sportsman	Yes	No	No	No
adult female	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, adult female is a hypernym of sportsman; that is, adult female is a word with a broader meaning than sportsman:

Other hypernyms of sportsman include sport, woman.

sportsman (noun)	adult female (noun)
a male who engages in sports	an adult female person (as opposed to a man)