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Sport   /spɔrt/   Listen
noun
Sport  n.  
1.
That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement. "It is as sport to a fool to do mischief." "Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight." "Think it but a minute spent in sport."
2.
Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision. "Then make sport at me; then let me be your jest."
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." "Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions."
4.
Play; idle jingle. "An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage would meet with small applause."
5.
Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.
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.
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?"
Synonyms: Play; game; diversion; frolic; mirth; mock; mockery; jeer.


verb
Sport  v. t.  
1.
To divert; to amuse; to make merry; used with the reciprocal pronoun. "Against whom do ye sport yourselves?"
2.
To represent by any kind of play. "Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth."
3.
To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage. (Colloq.)
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.)
To sport one's oak. See under Oak, n.


Sport  v. i.  (past & past part. sported; pres. part. sporting)  
1.
To play; to frolic; to wanton. "(Fish), sporting with quick glance, Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold."
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."
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.
Synonyms: To play; frolic; game; wanton.





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"Sport" Quotes from Famous Books



... functions of the garden is to restock parks with game when the pheasants, hares, wild-boars, deer, etc. become too rare for good sport: another is to tame and break to the harness certain animals counted unmanageable. The zebra is one of these. The society has succeeded perfectly in breaking the zebra and making him work in the field quite like the horse. An ostrich also allows itself ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. • Various
... "But the sport is not over," said the other. "I back the bull. Remember how he put you to flight, my friend. What is the meaning of this, old man?"—this ...
— In Search of the Okapi - A Story of Adventure in Central Africa • Ernest Glanville
... sing in every bush, and the sweet nightingale tunes her warbling notes in your solitary walks, whilst the other birds are at their rest. The beasts of the woods look out into the plains, and the fishes of the deep sport themselves in the shallow waters. The air is wholesome, and the earth pleasant, beginning now to be cloathed in nature's best array, exceeding all art's glory. This is the time that whets the wits ...
— On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, • Samuel Felton
... pulpit. I became uncomfortable, felt ill at ease in that stifling air, under that half-dusk of the twilight, where everything was happening so earnestly, so very slowly and so heavily. I, who was all for sport and child's-play, now found my own chums so altered; and they no longer knew me. I would have liked to shout, to grip them hard by the shoulder and call out that it was I: I, I, I! But I durst not, or ...
— The Path of Life • Stijn Streuvels
... lips are sealed. Wild horses sha'n't drag any more from me! Don't be afraid, Ella, I won't spoil sport!' ...
— The Talking Horse - And Other Tales • F. Anstey


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