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sport

[spawrt, spohrt]

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–noun

1.	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.

6.	an object of derision; laughingstock.

7.	something treated lightly or tossed about like a plaything.

8.	something or someone subject to the whims or vicissitudes of fate, circumstances, etc.

9.	a sportsman.

10.	Informal. a person who behaves in a sportsmanlike, fair, or admirable manner; an accommodating person: He was a sport and took his defeat well.

11.	Informal. a person who is interested in sports as an occasion for gambling; gambler.

12.	Informal. a flashy person; one who wears showy clothes, affects smart manners, pursues pleasurable pastimes, or the like; a bon vivant.

13.	Biology. an organism or part that shows an unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; mutation.

14.	Obsolete. amorous dalliance.

–adjective

15.	of, pertaining to, or used in sports or a particular sport.

16.	suitable for outdoor or informal wear: sport clothes.

–verb (used without object)

17.	to amuse oneself with some pleasant pastime or recreation.

18.	to play, frolic, or gambol, as a child or an animal.

19.	to engage in some open-air or athletic pastime or sport.

20.	to trifle or treat lightly: to sport with another's emotions.

21.	to mock, scoff, or tease: to sport at suburban life.

22.	Botany. to mutate.

–verb (used with object)

23.	to pass (time) in amusement or sport.

24.	to spend or squander lightly or recklessly (often fol. by away).

25.	Informal. to wear, display, carry, etc., esp. with ostentation; show off: to sport a new mink coat.

26.	Archaic. to amuse (esp. oneself).

—Idiom

27.	sport one's oak. oak (def. 5).

Origin:
1350–1400; ME; aph. var. of disport

Related forms:

sportful, adjective

sport⋅ful⋅ly, adverb

sport⋅ful⋅ness, noun

sportless, adjective

Synonyms:
1. game. 3. amusement, fun, entertainment. See play. 18. romp, caper. 20. toy.

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sport (spôrt, spōrt)

1. Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively.
2. A particular form of this activity.
3. Mockery; jest: He made sport of his own looks.
4. An object of mockery, jest, or play: treated our interests as sport.
5. A joking mood or attitude: She made the remark in sport.
6. One known for the manner of one's acceptance of rules, especially of a game, or of a difficult situation: a poor sport.
7. Informal One who accepts rules or difficult situations well.
8. Informal A pleasant companion: was a real sport during the trip.
9. A person who lives a jolly, extravagant life.
10. A gambler at sporting events.
An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
An active pastime; recreation.
1. Mockery; jest: He made sport of his own looks.
2. An object of mockery, jest, or play: treated our interests as sport.
3. A joking mood or attitude: She made the remark in sport.
4. One known for the manner of one's acceptance of rules, especially of a game, or of a difficult situation: a poor sport.
5. Informal One who accepts rules or difficult situations well.
6. Informal A pleasant companion: was a real sport during the trip.
7. A person who lives a jolly, extravagant life.
8. A gambler at sporting events.
1. One known for the manner of one's acceptance of rules, especially of a game, or of a difficult situation: a poor sport.
2. Informal One who accepts rules or difficult situations well.
3. Informal A pleasant companion: was a real sport during the trip.
4. A person who lives a jolly, extravagant life.
5. A gambler at sporting events.
Informal
1. A person who lives a jolly, extravagant life.
2. A gambler at sporting events.
Biology An organism that shows a marked change from the normal type or parent stock, typically as a result of mutation.
Maine See summercater. See Regional Note at summercater.
Obsolete Amorous dalliance; lovemaking.

v. sport·ed, sport·ing, sports

v. intr.

To play or frolic.
To joke or trifle.
Biology To mutate.

v. tr.
To display or show off: "His shoes sported elevated heels" (Truman Capote).
adj. or sports

Of, relating to, or appropriate for sports: sport fishing; sports equipment.
Designed or appropriate for outdoor or informal wear: a sport shirt.

[Middle English sporte, short for disporte, from Old French desport, pleasure, from desporter, to divert; see disport.]
sport'ful adj., sport'ful·ly adv., sport'ful·ness n.

sum·mer·ca·ter (sŭm'ər-kā'tər)

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.

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Sport

Sport\ (sp[=o]rt), n. [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. & Zo["o]l.) 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

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. & Zo["o]l.) 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

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.

Language Translation for : sport

Spanish: deporte,

German: der Sport,

Japanese: スポーツ

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sport (v.)

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.

sport (n.)

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 limitsof individual variation usually as a result of mutation especially of somatic tissue

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