Sport

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
  • noun. Such activities considered as a group.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A usually challenging activity undertaken for amusement.
  • noun. Fun; amusement.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Mockery; jest.
  • noun. An object of mockery, jest, or play.
  • noun. A joking mood or attitude.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. One known for the manner of one's acceptance of rules, especially of a game, or of a difficult situation.
  • noun. A fair-minded person, especially one who accepts teasing or difficult situations well.
  • noun. A pleasant companion.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A person who lives a jolly, extravagant life.
  • noun. A gambler at sporting events.
  • noun. An organism or a part of an organism that shows a marked change from the parent type, typically as a result of mutation.
  • noun. Amorous dalliance; lovemaking.
  • intransitive verb. To play or frolic.
  • intransitive verb. To joke or trifle.
  • intransitive verb. To wear or have on one's body, especially prominently or ostentatiously.
  • intransitive verb. To have as a prominent feature.
  • adjective. Of, relating to, or appropriate for sports.
  • adjective. Designed or appropriate for outdoor or informal wear.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • noun. Amusement; enjoyment; entertainment; diversion; fun.
  • noun. A mode of amusement; a playful act or proceeding; apastime; amerrymaking; aplay, game, or other form of diversion.
  • noun. Specifically— A dramatic or spectacular performance.
  • noun. Any out-of-door pastime, such as hunting, fishing, racing, or the various forms of athletic contests.
  • noun. Jest, as opposed to earnest; mere pleasantry.
  • noun. Amorous dallying; wantonness.
  • noun. A plaything; a toy.
  • noun. A subjeet of amusement, mirth, or derision; especially, a mock; a laughing-stock.
  • noun. Play; idle jingle.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A sporting man; one who is interested in open-air sports; hence, in a bad sense, a betting man; a gambler; a blackleg.
  • noun. Synonyms Recreation, hilarity, merriment, mirth, jollity, gamboling.
  • noun. Frolic, prank.
  • noun. A man; a fellow; especially a man who has a fad: as, a fresh-air sport.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To play; to frolic; to wanton.
  • intransitive verb. To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
  • intransitive verb. To trifle.
  • Word Usage
    "It's generally best to leave the controller in drive, engage sport or sport+ and let the electronics to the work."
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    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    athlete  feature  have  individual  jock  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Court  Dort  Mort  Porte  Stuart  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    sporting  
    verb-form
    sported  sporting  sports