sport
Noun · VerbWordNet 3.0
Noun (7)
- an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competitionSynonyms: athletics
- the occupation of athletes who compete for pay
- (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of MaineSynonyms: summercater
- 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”
- someone who engages in sportsSynonyms: sportsmansportswoman
- (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alterationSynonyms: mutantmutationvariation
- 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”Synonyms: funplay
Verb (2)
- wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner“she was sporting a new hat”Synonyms: featureboast
- play boisterously“The children frolicked in the garden”“the gamboling lambs in the meadows”“The toddlers romped in the playroom”Synonyms: froliclarkrollickskylarkdisportcavortgambolfriskromprun aroundlark about
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
1.That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement. [1913 Webster]
It is as sport to a fool to do mischief.— Prov. x. 23.[1913 Webster]
Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight.— Sir P. Sidney.[1913 Webster]
Think it but a minute spent in sport.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
2.Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision. [1913 Webster]
Then make sport at me; then let me be your jest.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
3.That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery. [1913 Webster]
Flitting leaves, the sport of every wind.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]
Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions.— John Clarke.[1913 Webster]
4.Play; idle jingle. [1913 Webster]
An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage would meet with small applause.— Broome.[1913 Webster]
5.Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked. [1913 Webster]
6.(Bot. & Zool.) 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. [1913 Webster]
7.A sportsman; a gambler. [Slang] [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
Syn: Play; game; diversion; frolic; mirth; mock; mockery; jeer. [1913 Webster]
1.To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun. [1913 Webster]
Against whom do ye sport yourselves?— Isa. lvii. 4.[1913 Webster]
2.To represent by any kind of play. [1913 Webster]
Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]
3.To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage. [Colloq.] --Grose. [1913 Webster]
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. [R.] --Addison. [1913 Webster]
To sport one's oak. See under Oak, n. [1913 Webster]
1.To play; to frolic; to wanton. [1913 Webster]
[Fish], sporting with quick glance, Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold.— Milton.[1913 Webster]
2.To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races. [1913 Webster]
3.To trifle. "He sports with his own life." --Tillotson. [1913 Webster]
4.(Bot. & Zool.) 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. [1913 Webster]
Syn: To play; frolic; game; wanton. [1913 Webster]