SPORT

sport

(noun) the occupation of athletes who compete for pay

sport, athletics

(noun) an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition

fun, play, sport

(noun) verbal wit or mockery (often at another’s expense but not to be taken seriously); “he became a figure of fun”; “he said it in sport”

mutant, mutation, variation, sport

(noun) (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration

sport, sportsman, sportswoman

(noun) someone who engages in sports

sport

(noun) a person known for the way she (or he) behaves when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances; “a good sport”; “a poor sport”

sport, summercater

(noun) (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine

frolic, lark, rollick, skylark, disport, sport, cavort, gambol, frisk, romp, run around, lark about

(verb) play boisterously; “The children frolicked in the garden”; “the gamboling lambs in the meadows”; “The toddlers romped in the playroom”

sport, feature, boast

(verb) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; “she was sporting a new hat”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Proper noun

SPORT

Acronym of Strategic Partnership On REACH Testing.

Anagrams

• Ports, Prost, ports, strop, torps, trops.

Etymology

Noun

sport (countable and uncountable, plural sports)

(countable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.

(countable) Something done for fun, regardless of its design or intended purpose.

(countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.

(countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.

(obsolete) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.

Synonym: Thesaurus:hobby

(obsolete) Mockery, making fun; derision.

(countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.

(uncountable) Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.

(biology, botany, zoology, countable) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.

(slang, countable) A sportsman; a gambler.

(slang, countable) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.

(obsolete, uncountable) An amorous dalliance.

(informal, usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)

Synonym: Thesaurus:friend

(obsolete) Play; idle jingle.

Verb

sport (third-person singular simple present sports, present participle sporting, simple past and past participle sported)

(intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.

(intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.

(transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.

(reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.

(transitive) To represent by any kind of play.

To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.

To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.

(transitive) To close (a door).

Anagrams

• Ports, Prost, ports, strop, torps, trops.

Source: Wiktionary

Sport, n. Etym: [Abbreviated frm disport.]

1. That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement. It is as sport a fool do mischief. prov. x. 23. Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight. Sir P. Sidney. Think it but a minute spent in sport. Shak.

2. Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision. Then make sport at me; then let me be your jest.Shak.

3. That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery. Flitting leaves, the sport of every wind. Dryden. Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned pasions. John Clarke.

4. Play; idle jingle. An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage would meet with small applause. Broome.

5. Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.

6. (Bot. & Zoöl.)

Definition: A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. See Sporting plant, under Sporting.

7. A sportsman; a gambler. [Slang] In sport, in jest; for play or diversion. "So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in sport" Prov. xxvi. 19.

Syn.

– Play; game; diversion; frolic; mirth; mock; mockery; jeer.

Sport, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sported; p. pr. & vb. n. Sporting.]

1. To play; to frolic; to wanton. [Fish], sporting with quick glance, Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold. Milton.

2. To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.

3. To trifle. "He sports with his own life." Tillotson.

4. (Bot. & Zoöl.)

Definition: To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. See Sport, n., 6. Darwin.

Syn.

– To play; frolic; game; wanton.

Sport, v. t.

1. To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun. Against whom do ye sport yourselves Isa. lvii. 4.

2. To represent by any knd of play. Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth. Dryden.

3. To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage. [Colloq.] Grose.

4. To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off epigrams. Addison. To sport one's oak. See under Oak, n.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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