Sport Definition–noun | 1. | an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc. | | 2. | a particular form of this, esp. in the out of doors. | | 3. | diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime. | | 4. | jest; fun; mirth; pleasantry: What he said in sport was taken seriously. | | 5. | mockery; ridicule; derision: They made sport of him. | | 6. | an object of derision; laughingstock. | | 7. | something treated lightly or tossed about like a plaything. | | 8. | something or someone subject to the whims or vicissitudes of fate, circumstances, etc. | | 10. | Informal. a person who behaves in a sportsmanlike, fair, or admirable manner; an accommodating person: He was a sport and took his defeat well. | | 11. | Informal. a person who is interested in sports as an occasion for gambling; gambler. | | 12. | Informal. a flashy person; one who wears showy clothes, affects smart manners, pursues pleasurable pastimes, or the like; a bon vivant. | | 13. | Biology. an organism or part that shows an unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; mutation. | | 14. | Obsolete. amorous dalliance. | –adjective | 15. | of, pertaining to, or used in sports or a particular sport. | | 16. | suitable for outdoor or informal wear: sport clothes. | –verb (used without object) | 17. | to amuse oneself with some pleasant pastime or recreation. | | 18. | to play, frolic, or gambol, as a child or an animal. | | 19. | to engage in some open-air or athletic pastime or sport. | | 20. | to trifle or treat lightly: to sport with another's emotions. | | 21. | to mock, scoff, or tease: to sport at suburban life. | –verb (used with object) | 23. | to pass (time) in amusement or sport. | | 24. | to spend or squander lightly or recklessly (often fol. by away). | | 25. | Informal. to wear, display, carry, etc., esp. with ostentation; show off: to sport a new mink coat. | | 26. | Archaic. to amuse (esp. oneself). | —Idiom | 27. | sport one's oak. oak (def. 5). | |
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