Sport Definition
spôrt
sported, sporting, sports
noun
sports
Any activity or experience that gives enjoyment or recreation; pastime; diversion.
Webster's New World
Such an activity, esp. when competitive, requiring more or less vigorous bodily exertion and carried on, sometimes as a profession, according to some traditional form or set of rules, whether outdoors, as football, golf, etc., or indoors, as basketball, bowling, etc.
Webster's New World
Such activities considered as a group.
Sports is a good way for children to get exercise.
American Heritage
A usually challenging activity undertaken for amusement.
American Heritage
Fun or play.
Webster's New World
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verb
sported, sporting, sports
To play or frolic.
Webster's New World
To wear or display, esp. with unnecessary show.
To sport a loud tie.
Webster's New World
To engage in a sport or sports.
Webster's New World
To joke or jest.
Webster's New World
To wear or have on one's body, especially prominently or ostentatiously.
Sports diamond earrings; sports a tattoo.
American Heritage
adjective
Of, relating to, or appropriate for sports.
Sport fishing; sports equipment.
American Heritage
Webster's New World
Suitable for informal or casual wear; not dressy.
A sport shirt.
Webster's New World
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abbreviation
Strategic Partnership On REACH Testing.
Wiktionary
idiom
in sport
- in joke or jest; not in earnest
Webster's New World
make sport of
- to mock or ridicule; poke fun at
Webster's New World
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Sport
- in sport
- make sport of
Origin of Sport
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Middle English sporte short for disporte from Old French desport pleasure from desporter to divert disport
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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