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

Typist: Pearl

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