[syn: frolic, lark, rollick, skylark, disport, sport, cavort, gambol, frisk, romp, run around, lark about]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sport \Sport\ (sp[=o]rt), n. [Abbreviated from disport.]
1. That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
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It is as sport to a fool to do mischief. --Prov. x.
23.
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Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge
upon the stream of delight. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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Think it but a minute spent in sport. --Shak.
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2. Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
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Then make sport at me; then let me be your jest.
--Shak.
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3. That with which one plays, or which is driven about in
play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
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Flitting leaves, the sport of every wind. --Dryden.
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Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than
when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions.
--John Clarke.
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4. Play; idle jingle.
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An author who should introduce such a sport of words
upon our stage would meet with small applause.
--Broome.
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5. Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing,
racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.
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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.
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7. A sportsman; a gambler. [Slang]
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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.
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Syn: Play; game; diversion; frolic; mirth; mock; mockery;
jeer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sport \Sport\, v. t.
1. To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the
reciprocal pronoun.
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Against whom do ye sport yourselves? --Isa. lvii.
4.
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2. To represent by any kind of play.
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Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth.
--Dryden.
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3. To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as,
to sport a new equipage. [Colloq.] --Grose.
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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.
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To sport one's oak. See under Oak, n.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sport \Sport\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sported; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sporting.]
1. To play; to frolic; to wanton.
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[Fish], sporting with quick glance,
Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold.
--Milton.
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2. To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be
given to betting, as upon races.
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3. To trifle. "He sports with his own life." --Tillotson.
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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.
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Syn: To play; frolic; game; wanton.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sport
n 1: an active diversion requiring physical exertion and
competition [syn: sport, athletics]
2: the occupation of athletes who compete for pay
3: (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine [syn:
sport, summercater]
4: 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"
5: someone who engages in sports [syn: sport, sportsman,
sportswoman]
6: (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from
chromosomal alteration [syn: mutant, mutation,
variation, sport]
7: 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" [syn: fun, play, sport]
v 1: wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she
was sporting a new hat" [syn: sport, feature, boast]
2: play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden";
"the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in
the playroom" [syn: frolic, lark, rollick, skylark,
disport, sport, cavort, gambol, frisk, romp, run
around, lark about]