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Sport

noun

1.

An active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition. Synonym: athletics.

2.

The occupation of athletes who compete for pay.

3.

(Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine. Synonym: summercater.

4.

A person known for the way she (or he) behaves when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances. "A poor sport"

5.

Someone who engages in sports. Synonyms: sportsman, sportswoman.

6.

(biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration. Synonyms: mutant, mutation, variation.

7.

Verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously). Synonyms: fun, play. "He said it in sport"

verb

(past & past part. sported; pres. part. sporting)

1.

Wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner. Synonyms: boast, feature.

2.

Play boisterously. Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark. "The gamboling lambs in the meadows" , "The toddlers romped in the playroom"

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"Sport" Quotes from Famous Books

... very few months he went through class after class, until he was fully up to the level of other boys of his age. His uncle lived in the suburbs of London, and he went with his cousins to St. Paul's. At that time prize-fighting was the national sport, and his father had, when he sent him over, particularly requested his uncle to obtain a ...

— At Aboukir and Acre - A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt • George Alfred Henty

... say, "Oh, that reminds me!" and then he would tell something that happened when he was at such and such a place, when So-and-So "of our regiment" was out tiger-shooting, or pig-sticking, or whatever the sport might be; "and if Mr. Raymount will take a glass of wine with me, I will tell him the story"—for he was constantly drinking wine, after the old fashion, with this or that one ...

— Weighed and Wanting • George MacDonald

... confused wonder in his face. "God! What a time he took to do it! I hadn't realized all his nerve till this minute. He must have known what it meant, to leave you there with Felix ... to risk losing you as well as—Any other man would have tried to marry you first and then—! Well, what a dead-game sport he was! And all for a lot of dirty Polacks who'd ...

— The Bent Twig • Dorothy Canfield

... floats: With wine that none but ghosts can taste We wash our unsubstantial throats. Three merry ghosts—three merry ghosts—three merry ghosts are we: Let the ocean be port and we'll think it good sport To be laid ...

— Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 • George Saintsbury

... is an exciting kind of fishing, and you feel a fine thrill of pleasure every time you detect the glow of one of those limpid pebbles through the veil of dark sand. I would like to spend my Saturday holidays in that charming sport every now and then. Of course there are disappointments. Sometimes you find a diamond which is not a diamond; it is only a quartz crystal or some such worthless thing. The expert can generally distinguish ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

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