sport

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
2. A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
3. Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
4. That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
5. Mockery, making fun; derision.
6. A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
7. Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, or fishing.
8. A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.
9. (slang) A sportsman; a gambler.
10. (slang) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
11. (obsolete) An amorous dalliance.
12. (informal) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
13. Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy.
14. Play; idle jingle.

Verb

1. To amuse oneself, to play.
2. To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
3. To display; to have as a notable feature.
4. To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
5. To represent by any kind of play.
6. To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
7. To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
8. To close (a door).

Sinònims

play

game

pastime

frolic

amusement

fun

recreation

pleasure

diversion

joke

🤣

athletics

entertainment

sports

lark

dally

jest

sportsman

gambol

exercise

rollick

romp

contest

skylark

variation

disport

hobby

frisk

games

mirth

gamble

amuse oneself

dalliance

pleasantry

delight in

cavort

jape

recreate

revel

run around

show off

sportswoman

banter

toy

feature

be amused

lad

trifle

fellow

flaunt

boast

wear

flutter

lark about

merriment

amuse

be playful

mutant

mutation

summercater

mate

🧉

merrymaking

mischief-making

mockery

monkey

🐒

pal

party

🥳

performance

physical exercise

playfulness

playing

plaything

prank

program

put on

put-on

quip

scatter

shindig

sort

squander

strewing

take pleasure in

transfer

transference

transposition

trick

twiddle

variant

wantonness

wave

👋

dress in

Josh

move about

piece of music

gambling

physical education

playing games

act wantonly

be frolicsome

divert oneself

make amorous gestures

masterpiece jugglery

japery

fond of athletics

pastance

sportsperson

act

kind of sport

amigo

antics

athlete

bear

🐻

beguile

bloke

boy

👦

brother

👨‍👦

buffoonery

buster

butt

caper

caprice

ceilidh

chaff

chap

cobber

competition

comrade

conversion

demonstrate

derision

dido

display

distraction

divert

divertissement

dog

🐕

dressy

drollery

dude

enjoy

entertain

exhibit

farce

fella

feller

flirtation

fool around

friend

gag

gallivant

gamester

guy

have fun

hoax

interest

joking

jollification

jollify

jump up

junket

junketing

laugh at

laughing-stock

leisure

make fun

make fun of

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/spɔːt/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: sporten

In summary

From Middle English sporten (verb) and sport, spoort, sporte (noun), apheretic shortenings of disporten (verb) and disport, disporte (noun). More at disport.