in sport

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]