sport

Meanings

Noun

• Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
• Something done for fun, regardless of its design or intended purpose.
• A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
• Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
• That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
• Mockery, making fun; derision.
• A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
• Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.
• 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.
• A sportsman; a gambler.
• One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
• An amorous dalliance.
• A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
• Play; idle jingle.

Verb

• To amuse oneself, to play.
• To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
• To display; to have as a notable feature.
• To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
• To represent by any kind of play.
• To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
• 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.
• To close (a door).

Origin

• From Middle English sporten and sport, spoort, sporte, apheretic shortenings of disporten and disport, disporte. More at disport.