risk taker

1. 1.

   someone who risks loss or injury in the hope of gain or excitement

   Synonymsgambler

   Broaderadventurer

Questions about risk taker

What does risk taker mean?

risk taker means "someone who risks loss or injury in the hope of gain or excitement".

What is another word for risk taker?

Close synonyms include gambler. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is risk taker a common word?

risk taker is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.