The phrase "a rugged man" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a man who is strong, tough, or has a rough exterior, often associated with outdoor or adventurous lifestyles.
Example: "He was a rugged man, with calloused hands and a weathered face, who spent most of his time in the mountains."
Alternatives: "a tough man" or "a sturdy man".
"It can be both masculine and polished -- sort of like a rugged man wearing boots and a tuxedo".
Mr. Horak, a rugged man with a dry sense of humor, asked the advice of Mr. Kuba, a fellow Ostravan and member of his tennis club.
Mr. Torres, a rugged man in his 60s with a graying mustache, greeted us in the driveway and invited us in.
But it was dominated by Antheil, the only composer in the group, variously shown as a child with blond bangs, a pugnacious teen-ager and a rugged man in his 20's with a smashed nose, exuding self-confidence.
Roby was an old cyclocross champion from the '40s, a rugged man built for traversing the bumps and ruts of off-road competition, but he had also ridden in the Tour for several years.
Despite this, she did make some changes to the original script; she suggested to Kobayashi that Hagio, the head of the orphanage, be an elderly woman and Fujita, initially an elderly woman, a "rugged man".
The Panthers play a rugged, man-to-man defense that demands a lot of effort.
Huggins's teams have always been constructed around a rugged man-to-man defense, and they spend a majority of their practice time on it.
His latest project is MadeWorn, a rugged men's clothing line that made its debut earlier this year at Maxfield and is now available by appointment only at his studio.
As a movie star, Grant is so much a man of the city that he couldn't play a rural hero or a noble, rugged man of action, and so much a modern man that he couldn't appear in a costume or period picture without looking obstreperous — as if he felt he was being made a fool of.
Most useless word of 2014, according to the American Dialect Society, was "baeless" – lacking a bae – with "narcissistick", a pejorative term for a selfie stick, and "lumbersexual", a "fashionably rugged man who adopts the stereotypical dress and facial hair of a lumberjack", deemed not quite as useless by society members.
