an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
2.
a particular form of this, esp. in the out of doors.
3.
diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime.
4.
jest; fun; mirth; pleasantry: What he said in sport was taken seriously.
5.
mockery; ridicule; derision: They made sport of him.
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an object of derision; laughingstock.
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something treated lightly or tossed about like a plaything.
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something or someone subject to the whims or vicissitudes of fate, circumstances, etc.
9.
a sportsman.
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Informal. a person who behaves in a sportsmanlike, fair, or admirable manner; an accommodating person: He was a sport and took his defeat well.
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Informal. a person who is interested in sports as an occasion for gambling; gambler.
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Informal. a flashy person; one who wears showy clothes, affects smart manners, pursues pleasurable pastimes, or the like; a bon vivant.
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Biology. an organism or part that shows an unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; mutation.
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Obsolete. amorous dalliance.
–adjective
15.
of, pertaining to, or used in sports or a particular sport.
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suitable for outdoor or informal wear: sport clothes.
–verb (used without object)
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to amuse oneself with some pleasant pastime or recreation.
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to play, frolic, or gambol, as a child or an animal.
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to engage in some open-air or athletic pastime or sport.
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to trifle or treat lightly: to sport with another's emotions.
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to mock, scoff, or tease: to sport at suburban life.
22.
Botany. to mutate.
–verb (used with object)
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to pass (time) in amusement or sport.
24.
to spend or squander lightly or recklessly (often fol. by away).
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Informal. to wear, display, carry, etc., esp. with ostentation; show off: to sport a new mink coat.
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n.
Maine
A summer resident of Maine. Also called sport.
[Probably summer1 + (va)cat(ion)er.]
Since the Civil War Maine has been a favorite vacation spot for New Englanders and tourists from farther away. Predictably, certain words in the lexicon of Maine betray a wry Yankee impatience with these outsiders and city folks who come up to Maine only for summer relaxation. Along the coast the summer resident is called a summercater; inland, the word for a nonresident is sport. Or the Maine native may merely refer collectively to folks from away.
c.1400, "to take pleasure, to amuse oneself," from Anglo-Fr. disport, from O.Fr. desport "pastime, recreation, pleasure," from desporter "to divert, amuse, please, play" (see disport). Sense of "to amuse oneself by active exercise in open air or taking part in some game" is from c.1483. Meaning "to wear" is from 1778.
c.1440, "pleasant passtime," from sport (v.). Meaning "game involving physical exercise" first recorded 1523. Original sense preserved in phrases such as in sport "in jest" (c.1440). Sense of "stylish man" is from 1861, Amer.Eng., probably because they lived by gambling and betting on races. Meaning "good fellow" is attested from 1881 (e.g. be a sport, 1913). The sport of kings was originally (1668) war-making. Sportswear is from 1912. Sports car first attested 1928. Sportscast first recorded 1938. Sportsman first recorded 1706. Sporting "characterized by conduct constant with that of a sportsman" is attested from 1799 (e.g. sporting chance, 1897). Sportsmanship is from 1745.
Main Entry: sport Pronunciation: 'spO(&)rt, 'spo(&)rt Function: noun : an individual exhibiting a sudden deviation from type beyond the normal limits
of individual variation usually as a result of mutation especially of somatic tissue
Dis*port"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Disported; p. pr. & vb. n. Disporting.] [OF. se desporter; pref. des- (L. dis-) + F. porter to carry; orig. therefore, to carry one's self away from work, to go to amuse one's self. See Port demeanor, and cf. Sport.] To play; to wanton; to move in gayety; to move lightly and without restraint; to amuse one's self. Where light disports in ever mingling dyes. --Pope. Childe Harold basked him in the noontide sun, Disporting there like any other fly. --Byron.
Port\, n. [F. port, fr. porter to carry, L. portare, prob. akin to E. fare, v. See Port harbor, and cf. Comport, Export, Sport.] The manner in which a person bears himself; deportment; carriage; bearing; demeanor; hence, manner or style of living; as, a proud port. --Spenser. And of his port as meek as is a maid. --Chaucer. The necessities of pomp, grandeur, and a suitable port in the world. --South.
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