sport

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
2. (countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
3. (countable) 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. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Something fun, pastime; amusement.
5. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Mockery, making fun; derision.
6. (countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
7. (uncountable) Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, or fishing.
8. (countable) 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. (countable, slang) A sportsman; a gambler.
10. (countable, slang) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
11. (obsolete, uncountable) An amorous dalliance.
12. (countable, informal, singular, uncountable, usually) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
13. (countable, uncountable) Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy.
14. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Play; idle jingle.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.
2. (intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
3. (transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.
4. (reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
5. (transitive) 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. (archaic, transitive) To close (a door).

Pronounced as (IPA)

/spɔːt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: sporten

In summary

Aphetic form of disport. From Middle English sporten (“to divert, disport”) (verb) and sport, spoort, sporte (noun), aphetic shortenings of disporten (verb) and disport, disporte (noun), from Old French desporter (“to divert, amuse, please, play; to seek amusement”), etymologically meaning "to carry away (the mind from serious matters)," from des- + porter, from Latin dis- + Latin portāre, ultimately from Latin deportāre, from de- + portāre, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to lead, pass over”)). More at disport. Doublet of disport and deport.

Synonyms

play

game

pastime

frolic

amusement

fun

recreation

diversion

pleasure

athletics

joke

🤣

entertainment

sports

lark

jest

dally

sportsman

gambol

romp

skylark

exercise

rollick

hobby

mirth

disport

frisk

variation

contest

games

dalliance

run around

show off

boast

recreate

revel

pleasantry

amuse

amuse oneself

cavort

mutant

jape

be amused

mutation

lad

flutter

merriment

gamble

feature

banter

fellow

Translations

sport

sport

Sport

deporte

sport

sport

desporto

esport

άθλημα

σπορ

esporte

spor

jogo

jeu

رياضة