'Sport' definitions:

Definition of 'sport'

(from WordNet)
noun
An active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition [syn: sport, athletics]
noun
The occupation of athletes who compete for pay
noun
(Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine [syn: sport, summercater]
noun
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"
noun
Someone who engages in sports [syn: sport, sportsman, sportswoman]
noun
(biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration [syn: mutant, mutation, variation, sport]
noun
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]
verb
Wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she was sporting a new hat" [syn: sport, feature, boast]
verb
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]

Definition of 'Sport'

From: GCIDE
  • Sport \Sport\, v. t.
  • 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]

Definition of 'Sport'

From: GCIDE
  • Sport \Sport\ (sp[=o]rt), n. [Abbreviated from disport.]
  • 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]

Definition of 'Sport'

From: GCIDE
  • Sport \Sport\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sported; p. pr. & vb. n. Sporting.]
  • 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]

Synonyms of 'sport'

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Words containing 'Sport'