Representation of epoymous sport terms in a specialized dictionary

The article covers the principles of lexicographic registration of eponymous words and phrases used in sport discourse. The paper describes the basic elements of micro- and macrostructure of the dictionary of sports eponyms with reference to their structural, semantic, functional and etymological features. One-word and multiword eponyms are the material of the research, and the existing monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, glossaries and texts on sports representing different styles and genres, eponymous dictionaries of other fields are the source base of the research. The results of the research contribute to the development of the terminographic studies and may be used in the practice of special and eponymous dictionaries compiling, as well as in the academic practice of teaching special courses of terminological studies, sociolinguistics, translation of texts for special purposes.