sport

Signification

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).

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/spɔːt/

Étymologie

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