To amuse; divert; entertain; make merry: commonly with a reflexive object.
To represent by any kind of play.
To display sportively or with ostentation; show-off; show; exhibit.
To spend in display.
To cause to sport, or vary from the normal type.
To divert one's self; play; frolic; take part in games or other pastimes; specifically, to practise field-sports.
To jest; speak or act jestingly; trifle.
In zoöl, and botany, to become a sport; produce a sport; vary from normal structure in a singular spontaneous manner, as an animal or a plant. See sport. n., 8.
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Amusement; enjoyment; entertainment; diversion; fun.
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A mode of amusement; a playful act or proceeding; apastime; amerrymaking; aplay, game, or other form of diversion.
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Specifically— A dramatic or spectacular performance.
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Any out-of-door pastime, such as hunting, fishing, racing, or the various forms of athletic contests.
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Jest, as opposed to earnest; mere pleasantry.
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Amorous dallying; wantonness.
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A plaything; a toy.
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A subjeet of amusement, mirth, or derision; especially, a mock; a laughing-stock.
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Play; idle jingle.
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In zoology and botany, an animal or a plant, or any part of one, that varies suddenly or singularly from the normal type of structure, and is usually of transient character, or not perpetuated.
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A sporting man; one who is interested in open-air sports; hence, in a bad sense, a betting man; a gambler; a blackleg.
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Synonyms Recreation, hilarity, merriment, mirth, jollity, gamboling.
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Frolic, prank.
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A man; a fellow; especially a man who has a fad: as, a fresh-air sport.