Dictionary
sport
Pronunciation: (spôrt, spōrt), [key]—
n.
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. Biol.an organism or part that shows an unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; mutation.
14. Obs.amorous dalliance.
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adj.
1. of, pertaining to, or used in sports or a particular sport.
2. suitable for outdoor or informal wear:
sport clothes.
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v.i.
1. to amuse oneself with some pleasant pastime or recreation.
2. to play, frolic, or gambol, as a child or an animal.
3. to engage in some open-air or athletic pastime or sport.
4. to trifle or treat lightly:
to sport with another's emotions.
5. to mock, scoff, or tease:
to sport at suburban life.
6. Bot.to mutate.
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v.t.
1. to pass (time) in amusement or sport.
2. to spend or squander lightly or recklessly (often fol. by
away).
3. Informal.to wear, display, carry, etc., esp. with ostentation; show off:
to sport a new mink coat.
4. Archaic.to amuse (esp. oneself).
5. sport one's oak. See
oak (def. 5).
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
