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.
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  • noun. A usually challenging activity undertaken for amusement.
  • noun. Fun; amusement.
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  • noun. Mockery; jest.
  • noun. An object of mockery, jest, or play.
  • noun. A joking mood or attitude.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.