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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

... narrow private road at forty-five miles an hour. That was Tommy Reames' way. He looked totally unlike the conventional description of a scientist of any sort—as much unlike a scientist as his sport roadster looked unlike a scientist's customary means of transit—and ordinarily he acted quite unlike one. As a matter of fact, most of the people Tommy associated with had no faintest inkling of his taste for science as an avocation. There was Peter Dalzell, for instance, who would have ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 • Various

... "Everything that the heathen do is not to be condemned. Polykarp must be kept busy, constantly and earnestly occupied, for he has set his eyes where they should not be set. Sirona is the wife of another, and even in sport no man should try to win his neighbor's wife. Do you think, the Gaulish woman is capable of forgetting ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... the somewhat pugnacious introduction of Miles into our story may have misled the reader on this point. His desire for a soldier's life was founded on a notion that it would prove to be a roving, jovial, hilarious sort of life, with plenty of sport and adventure in foreign lands. Of course he knew that it implied fighting also, and he was quite ready for that when it should be required of him; but it did not occur to him to reflect very profoundly that soldiering also ...

— Blue Lights - Hot Work in the Soudan • R.M. Ballantyne

... wishes to take a wild horse, he mounts a horse that has been used to the sport, and gallops ...

— New National Fourth Reader • Charles J. Barnes and J. Marshall Hawkes

... warrior possessed a beautiful mare; no horse in the prairie could outspeed her, and in the buffalo or bear hunt she would enjoy the sport as much as her master, and run alongside the huge beast with great courage and spirit. Many propositions were made to the warrior to sell or exchange the animal, but he would not hear of it. The dumb brute was his friend, his sole companion; they had both shared the dangers of battle ...

— Monsieur Violet • Frederick Marryat

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