Sekirov Dictionary

sport

UK /spɔːt/US /spoɹt/

noun 14
verb 8
forms 5
phrases 3

noun14

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an activity in which people or teams use strength and skills to try to win, following agreed rules
- Basketball is her favorite sport, and she also enjoys various other sports as well.
- Sport can be an excellent form of exercise because the competition and sense of achievement can help with both motivation and pleasure.
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A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
- Jen may have won, but she was sure a poor sport; she laughed at the loser.
- The loser was a good sport, and congratulated Jen on her performance.
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Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
- You're such a sport! You never get upset when we tease you.
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Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy.
- Hey, sport! You've gotten so big since I saw you last! Give me five.
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(informal) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
- "Say, sport!" he would say briskly. — 1924
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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.
- We never shot another like it, so I do not know if it was a `sport' or a distinct species. — 1886
Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, or fishing.
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(slang) A sportsman; a gambler.
- See my dressed like all the sports/In my blazer and a pair of shorts. — 1937
(slang) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
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A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
- flitting leaves, the sport of every wind — 1697
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(no longer used) Something fun, pastime; amusement.
- Think it but a minute spent in sport. — 1591
(no longer used) An amorous dalliance.
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(no longer used) Play; idle jingle.
- An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage […] would meet with small applause. — 1725
(no longer used) Mockery, making fun; derision.

verb8

To amuse oneself, to play.
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To display; to have as a notable feature.
- Jen's sporting a new pair of shoes; he was sporting a new wound from the combat
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[with oneself] To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
- Against whom do ye sport yourselves? — 1611
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To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
- Jen sports with Bill's emotions.
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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.
- more than one kind of rose has sported into a moss — 1860
To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
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To represent by any kind of play.
- Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth. — 1693
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(no longer used) To close (a door).
- There he locked it up in a drawer, sported the doors of both sets of rooms, and retired to bed. — 1904

forms

sported · sporting · sporteth · sports · sportest

Phrases with sport

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