Sport
[spɔːt] or [spɔrt]
Definition
(noun.) the occupation of athletes who compete for pay.
(noun.) an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition.
(noun.) someone who engages in sports.
(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'.
(noun.) (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine.
(verb.) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; 'she was sporting a new hat'.
Checker: Mimi--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
(n.) Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
(n.) That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
(n.) Play; idle jingle.
(n.) Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A sportsman; a gambler.
(v. i.) To play; to frolic; to wanton.
(v. i.) To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
(v. i.) To trifle.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. t.) To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun.
(v. t.) To represent by any knd of play.
(v. t.) To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage.
(v. t.) To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off epigrams.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Play, diversion, amusement, pastime, game, fun, frolic, gambol, prank, jest, recreation, hilarity, entertainment, merriment, mirth, jollity, joviality, pleasantry, merry-making.[2]. Mockery, derision, mock, ridicule, contemptuous mirth.
v. n. Play, frolic, disport, wanton, skip, frisk, romp, caper, make fun, make merry.
v. a. [Colloquial.] Exhibit, display, make a show of.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Play, frolic, wantonness, joke, diversion, merriment, gaiety, fun, amusement,recreation, game, pastime
ANT:Work, seriousness, business, earnestness
Typist: Remington
Definition
v.i. to play: to frolic: to practise field diversions: to trifle.—v.t. to amuse: to make merry: to represent playfully: to spend in sport or display.—n. that which amuses or makes merry: play: mirth: jest: contemptuous mirth: anything for playing with: a toy: idle jingle: field diversion: an animal or plant or one of its organs that varies singularly and spontaneously from the normal type.—n. Sport′er one who sports: a sportsman.—adj. Sport′ful full of sport: merry: full of jesting.—adv. Sport′fully.—n. Sport′fulness.—adj. Sport′ing relating to or engaging in sports.—adv. Sport′ingly.—adj. Sport′ive inclined to sport: playful: merry: amorous wanton.—adv. Sport′ively.—n. Sport′iveness.—adj. Sport′less without sport or mirth: sad.—n. Sports′man one who practises or one skilled in field-sports.—adj. Sports′man-like.—ns. Sports′manship practice or skill of a sportsman; Sports′woman a she-sportsman.—Sport one's oak (see Oak).
Checker: Mario
Examples
- But now, at hunting and hawking, and each idle sport of wood and river, who so prompt as the Templars in all these fond vanities? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I'm glad you think it good sport, brother, she continued, groping wildly through this amazement. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We enjoyed the sport immensely. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Is luge-ing your idea of winter sport, sir? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- For the winter sport. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He left her alone only when he went skiing, a sport he loved, and which she did not practise. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Why, the sport is but just begun. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- He was famous in field-sports, famous at a song, famous on parade; free with his money, which was bountifully supplied by his father. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- She made it her task to attend the sick, comfort the sorrowing, assist the aged, and partake the sports and awaken the gaiety of the young. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Her hand is large--it's these modern sports that spread the joints--but the skin is white. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The knights and spectators are alike impatient, the time advances, and highly fit it is that the sports should commence. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- All field sports were over. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- At these sports there are usually from four to six bulls sacrificed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Less given to detail are the beggars who make sporting ventures. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Hey, jolly shepherd, come not a-courting, Join will I not in such silly, silly sporting, With a fa-la-la-la, jolly shepherd. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Some of his clothes, papers, handkerchiefs, whips and caps, fishing-rods and sporting gear, were still there. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Well, Pitt, are you a sporting man? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I think I would risk a little sporting flutter that you don't go there at all. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was somewhat offended--yet sporting. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He discovered Trenor, in his day clothes, sitting, with a tall glass at his elbow, behind the folds of a sporting journal. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The days sported by us, as if Time had not grown up himself yet, but were a child too, and always at play. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He sported a military frock-coat, ornamented with frogs, knobs, black buttons, and meandering embroidery. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mine were made by a man in the Haymarket, Bentinck observed, looking down at them with much pride; for he very seldom sported anything new. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- As Evadne regained her composure, his manner became even gay; he sported with the idea of her poverty. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But while they in health sported about her, she could cherish contentment and hope. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Yet I, too, have sported with Amaryllis in the shade, and piped love-songs to the careless ear of Ne?ra. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Typist: Pearl