sport

Meaning

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).

Concepts

sport

play

game

pastime

frolic

amusement

fun

recreation

pleasure

diversion

joke

athletics

sports

entertainment

jest

dally

lark

gambol

sportsman

exercise

contest

frisk

disport

mirth

rollick

romp

skylark

variation

hobby

games

be amused

be playful

banter

wear

trifle

amuse oneself

delight in

flutter

gamble

merriment

dalliance

cavort

lark about

run around

boast

feature

mutant

mutation

sportswoman

summercater

lad

fellow

pleasantry

amuse

recreate

revel

show off

jape

flaunt

toy

playing

enjoy

physical education

dressy

caprice

flirtation

bear

put on

playing games

dress in

take pleasure in

jump up

wave

be frolicsome

act wantonly

make amorous gestures

move about

divert oneself

buffoonery

masterpiece jugglery

competition

chap

mockery

derision

laughing-stock

laugh at

divert

scatter

squander

wantonness

make fun

farce

butt

plaything

Josh

antics

chaff

gag

hoax

divertissement

jollification

junketing

merrymaking

party

shindig

beguile

entertain

gallivant

jollify

junket

demonstrate

display

exhibit

fool around

monkey

twiddle

dido

prank

trick

fond of athletics

gamester

act

performance

program

joking

kind of sport

amigo

bloke

boy

brother

buster

cobber

comrade

dog

dude

fella

feller

friend

guy

mate

pal

sort

conversion

transfer

transference

transposition

variant

japery

athlete

make fun of

physical exercise

piece of music

distraction

leisure

have fun

sportsperson

ceilidh

playfulness

strewing

caper

drollery

mischief-making

put-on

quip

gambling

interest

pastance

Pronounced as (IPA)

/spɔːt/

Etymology

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