Sport an often competitive athletic activity requiring skill or physical ability:[countable]interested in several sports: gymnastics, baseball, and soccer.
Sport such activities thought of as a group:[uncountable]And now, news from the world of sport.
Sportan athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
Sporta particular form of this, esp. in the out of doors.
diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime.
jest; fun; mirth; pleasantry:What he said in sport was taken seriously.
mockery; ridicule; derision:They made sport of him.
an object of derision; laughingstock.
something treated lightly or tossed about like a plaything.
something or someone subject to the whims or vicissitudes of fate, circumstances, etc.
Sporta sportsman.
Informal Termsa person who behaves in a sportsmanlike, fair, or admirable manner; an accommodating person:He was a sport and took his defeat well.
Sport, Informal Terms[Informal.]a person who is interested in sports as an occasion for gambling; gambler.
Informal Termsa flashy person; one who wears showy clothes, affects smart manners, pursues pleasurable pastimes, or the like; a bon vivant.
[Biol.]an organism or part that shows an unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; mutation.
[Obs.]amorous dalliance.
adj.
Sportof, pertaining to, or used in sports or a particular sport.
Clothingsuitable for outdoor or informal wear:sport clothes.
v.i.
to amuse oneself with some pleasant pastime or recreation.
to play, frolic, or gambol, as a child or an animal.
Sportto engage in some open-air or athletic pastime or sport.
to trifle or treat lightly:to sport with another's emotions.
to mock, scoff, or tease:to sport at suburban life.
Botanyto mutate.
v.t.
to pass (time) in amusement or sport.
to spend or squander lightly or recklessly (often fol. by away).
Informal Termsto wear, display, carry, etc., esp. with ostentation; show off:to sport a new mink coat.
[Archaic.]to amuse (esp. oneself ).
British Termssport one's oak. See oak (def. 5).
1350–1400; Middle English; aphetic variant of disport
sport′ful, adj. sport′ful•ly, adv. sport′ful•ness, n. sport′less, adj.
1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged game.
3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged amusement, fun, entertainment. See play.
18.See corresponding entry in Unabridged romp, caper.
an individual or group activity pursued for exercise or pleasure, often involving the testing of physical capabilities and taking the form of a competitive game such as football, tennis, etc
such activities considered collectively
any particular pastime indulged in for pleasure
the pleasure derived from a pastime, esp hunting, shooting, or fishing: we had good sport today
playful or good-humoured joking: to say a thing in sport
derisive mockery or the object of such mockery: to make sport of someone
someone or something that is controlled by external influences: the sport of fate
sometimes qualified bygood, bad, etc: a person who reacts cheerfully in the face of adversity, esp a good loser
a person noted for being scrupulously fair and abiding by the rules of a game
a person who leads a merry existence, esp a gambler: he's a bit of a sport
a form of address used esp between males
an animal or plant that differs conspicuously in one or more aspects from other organisms of the same species, usually because of a mutation
an anomalous characteristic of such an organism
(transitive)to wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner: she was sporting a new hat
(intransitive)to skip about or frolic happily
to amuse (oneself), esp in outdoor physical recreation
(intransitive) often followed bywith: to dally or trifle (with)
(transitive) often followed byaway: to squander (time or money): sporting one's life away
(intransitive) often followed bywith: to make fun (of)
(intransitive)to produce or undergo a mutation
Etymology: 15th Century sporten, variant of disporten to disportˈsporterˈsportfulˈsportfullyˈsportfulness
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