Sport(n.) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
Sport(n.) Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
Sport(n.) That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
Sport(n.) Play; idle jingle.
Sport(n.) Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.
Sport(n.) 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.
Sport(n.) A sportsman; a gambler.
Sport(v. i.) To play; to frolic; to wanton.
Sport(v. i.) To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
Sport(v. i.) To trifle.
Sport(v. i.) 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.
Sport(v. t.) To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun.
Sport(v. t.) To represent by any knd of play.
Sport(v. t.) To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage.
Sport(v. t.) To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off epigrams.
Sported(imp. & p. p.) of Sport
Sportful(a.) Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion.
Sportful(a.) Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive.
Sporting(a.) Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports.
Sporting(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sport
Sportingly(adv.) In sport; sportively.
Words within sports