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See Sport

English

Etymology

From desporte, from deportare

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /spɔːt/
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-sport.ogg



Adjective

  1. suitable for use in athletic activities
  2. * Jen has a new pair of sport shoes, and a new sports bra.


Synonyms


Translations

  • Icelandic: {{t-|is|íþrótta|alt=íþrótta-}}

Noun

  1. Any athletic activity that uses physical skills, often competitive.
  2. A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
  3. * Jen may have won, but she was sure a poor sport; she laughed at the loser.
  4. * The loser was a good sport, and congratulated Jen on her performance.
  5. Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirable manner, a good sport.
  6. * You're such a sport! You never get upset when we tease you.
  7. A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
  8. Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.
  9. {{context|biology|botany|zoology|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.
  10. A sportsman; a gambler, one who consorts with less than reputable people, including prostitutes.
  11. In the Context of An amorous dalliance.
  12. * Charlie and Lisa enjoyed a bit of sport after their hike.


Derived terms

Translations

  • Arabic:
  • Chinese: 運動, 运动 (yùndòng)
  • Croatian: {{t+|hr|sport|m}}, {{t-|hr|šport|m}}
  • Czech: {{t-|cs|sport|m}}
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|sport|m}}
  • Finnish: ,
  • French: {{t+|fr|sport|m}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Sport|m}}
  • Greek:
  • : Ancient: ἄθλημα (athlēma) , ἀγών (agōn)
  • : Modern: άθλημα (athlima)
  • Hebrew: {{t+|he|ספורטאי|sc=Hebr}} [sportay], [t+|he|אתלט}} [atlet]
  • Hungarian:
  • Icelandic: {{t+|is|íþrótt|f}}
  • Indonesian: olah raga
  • Interlingue: {{t-|ie|sport|xs=Interlingue}}
  • Italian: {{t+|it|sport|m}}
  • Japanese: 運動 (うんどう, undō)
  • Korean: 스포츠 (seupocheu)
  • Kurdish:
  • : Sorani: {{t|ku|وه‌رزش|tr=warzish|sc=KUchar}}
  • Maltese: {{t-|mt|sport|m|xs=Maltese}}
  • Portuguese: esporte (Brazil), desporto (Portugal)
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|спорт|m|tr=sport|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Spanish: {{t+|es|deporte|m}}
  • Swedish: sport , idrott
  • Finnish:
  • Finnish:
  • Finnish: ,
  • Finnish:
  • Finnish:
  • Finnish:

Verb

  1. to amuse oneself, to play
  2. to mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with
  3. * Jen sports with Bill's emotions.
  4. to wear (something) with pride
  5. * Jen's sporting a new pair of shoes.
  6. to bear a mark or wound with embarrassment


Anagrams


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Croatian

Etymology

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Noun

  1. #English|sport


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Czech

Noun

  1. #English|sport


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Dutch

Noun

sport (plural sporten)

  1. sport#English|sport
  2. step on a ladder


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Category:Dutch nouns

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Hungarian

Noun

  1. #English|sport


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Category:hu:Sports

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Italian

Noun

sport

  1. sport (activity that uses physical skills, often competitive)
  2. hobby, pastime
  3. : fare qualcosa per sport (to do something for fun)


Derived terms


Category:Italian nouns Category:it:Sports

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Sport \Sport\ (sp[=o]rt), n. [Abbreviated from disport.]
1. That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
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It is as sport to a fool to do mischief. --Prov. x.
23.
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Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge
upon the stream of delight. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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Think it but a minute spent in sport. --Shak.
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2. Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
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Then make sport at me; then let me be your jest.
--Shak.
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3. That with which one plays, or which is driven about in
play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
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Flitting leaves, the sport of every wind. --Dryden.
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Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than
when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions.
--John Clarke.
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4. Play; idle jingle.
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An author who should introduce such a sport of words
upon our stage would meet with small applause.
--Broome.
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5. Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing,
racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.
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6. (Bot. & Zool.) 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. See {Sporting
plant}, under Sporting.
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7. A sportsman; a gambler. [Slang]
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In sport, in jest; for play or diversion. "So is the man
that deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in
sport?" --Prov. xxvi. 19.
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Syn: Play; game; diversion; frolic; mirth; mock; mockery;
jeer.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Sport \Sport\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sported; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sporting.]
1. To play; to frolic; to wanton.
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[Fish], sporting with quick glance,
Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold.
--Milton.
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2. To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be
given to betting, as upon races.
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3. To trifle. "He sports with his own life." --Tillotson.
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4. (Bot. & Zool.) 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.
See Sport, n., 6. --Darwin.
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Syn: To play; frolic; game; wanton.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Sport \Sport\, v. t.
1. To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the
reciprocal pronoun.
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Against whom do ye sport yourselves? --Isa. lvii.
4.
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2. To represent by any kind of play.
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Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth.
--Dryden.
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3. To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as,
to sport a new equipage. [Colloq.] --Grose.
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4. To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in
an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off
epigrams. [R.] --Addison.
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To sport one's oak. See under Oak, n.
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WordNet sport
n 1: an active diversion requiring physical exertion and
competition [syn: athletics]
2: the occupation of athletes who compete for pay
3: someone who engages in sports [syn: sportsman, sportswoman]
4: (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting
from chromosomal alteration [syn: mutant, mutation, variation]
5: (Maine colloquial) temporary summer resident of inland Maine
6: verbal wit (often at another's expense but not to be taken
seriously); "he became a figure of fun" [syn: fun, play]
v 1: wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she was
sporting a new hat" [syn: feature, boast]
2: play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden";
"the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped
in the playroom" [syn: frolic, lark, rollick, skylark,
disport, cavort, gambol, frisk, romp, {run
around}, lark about]
Moby Dictionary
Beau Brummel , Monopoly , Ping-Pong , Rugby , Scrabble , acrobatics ,
action , adventurer , advertise , affect , agate , agonistics , air ,
also-ran , amateur athlete , amusement , anomaly , antic , antics ,
archer , archery , association football , athlete , athletics , avatar ,
backgammon , badinage , badminton , bagatelle , ball , ballplayer ,
bandy , banter , baseball , baseball bat , baseballer , baseman ,
basketball , bat , bathing , batter , battery , battledore ,
battledore and shuttlecock , bauble , be dressed in , beano , beat ,
beau , belly laugh , betting ring , bettor , big time , billiards ,
bingo , blade , blazon forth , blocking back , blocks , blood ,
blue story , boneshaker , booby , boulevardier , bout , bowling , bowls ,
bowman , boxing , brandish , butt , call , caper , caracole , cardshark ,
cardsharp , cardsharper , carry on , cast lots , cat , catabolism ,
catalysis , catch , catcher , cavort , center , chaff , charades , chase ,
checkerboard , checkers , chess , chessboard , chevy , chivy , climbing ,
clotheshorse , club , coach , cockhorse , competitor ,
compulsive gambler , consubstantiation , contest , course , coursing ,
coxcomb , crambo , crap shooter , cricket , cricket bat , cricketer ,
croquet , crosspatch , cue , curling , curvet , cut a dido , cut capers ,
cut lots , cut the cards , cut up , cynegetics , dance , dandy , dangle ,
decathlon , defeatee , defensive lineman , demonstrate , deride ,
derision , dirty joke , dirty story , discus , displacement , display ,
disport , distraction , diversion , divertissement , dog , doll ,
doll carriage , dominoes , double entendre , double-header , doubles ,
draughts , draw lots , draw straws , drive , duck , dude , emblazon , end ,
enjoyment , entertainment , ethnic joke , event , exchange , exhibit ,
exquisite , falcon , falconry , fall guy , fashion plate , fencing ,
fine gentleman , fishing , fives , flash , flaunt , flounce , flourish ,
flush , follow the hounds , fool around , fooling , fooling around ,
football , footballer , fop , foursome , fowl , fox hunting , freak ,
fribble , frisk , frolic , fun , fun and games , funmaking , funny story ,
gag , gallant , gamble , gambler , gambol , game , game loser , games ,
games of chance , games-player , gamester , gewgaw , ghost , gimcrack ,
give-and-take , gliding , go , go hunting , golf , golf club ,
good loser , good one , good sport , good story , good time ,
good-natured banter , great fun , guard , gun , gunning , gymnastics ,
handball , harmless teasing , have on , hawk , hawking , hazarder ,
heterotopia , hide-and-seek , high jinks , high old time , high time ,
hiking , hobbyhorse , hockey , hold up , hopscotch , horse around ,
horseplay , horseshoes , hound , howler , humor , hunt , hunt down ,
hunting , hurdling , ice hockey , individualist , infielder ,
inner-directed person , innovation , jack , jack-a-dandy ,
jack-in-the-box , jackanapes , jacklight , jacks , jackstones ,
jackstraws , jape , jest , jestbook , jive , jock , joke , jollification ,
josh , jumper , keno , kickshaw , kidding , kidding around , knickknack ,
lacrosse , lady-killer , lark , laugh , laughs , lawn tennis , leapfrog ,
lineman , loser , lot , lotto , lovely time , luging , macaroni ,
man-about-town , manifest , marble , marbles , marionette , masher ,
match , match coins , meet , merels , metabolism , metagenesis ,
metamorphism , metamorphosis , metastasis , metathesis ,
metempsychosis , mig , misfit , mock , mockery , motorcycling ,
mountaineering , mumble-the-peg , mutant , mutated form , mutation ,
natation , naysayer , ninepins , nonconformist , novelty , oddball ,
offensive lineman , outfield , outfielder , palaestra , pall-mall ,
pallone , panic , paper doll , parade , pastime , pelota , pentathlon ,
permutation , persiflage , petty gambler , pick-up sticks , picnic ,
piker , pilgarlic , pinwheel , play , play at dice , play the ponies ,
play-off , player , plaything , pleasant time , pleasantry , pleasure ,
plunger , point , polo , poloist , pool , post office ,
professional athlete , prowl after , pugilist , punter , puppet , puppy ,
pushball , put forth , put forward , pyramids , quarterback , quintain ,
quits , race , racer , racket , racquets , raffle off , rag doll ,
raillery , rallying , recreate , recreation , reincarnation ,
relaxation , rib tickler , ride to hounds , ridicule , riding , riot ,
rocking horse , roller skating , rollick , romp , rounders , rowing ,
rugger , run , runoff , sailing , sailplaning , scream , sculling , sharp ,
sharper , sharpie , shikar , shinny , shoot , shoot craps , shooting ,
shot-put , show off , shuffleboard , sick joke , sidesplitter ,
sight gag , singles , skater , skating , skeet , skeet shooting ,
ski-jumping , skiing , skin-diving , skip , skittles , sledding ,
snooker , snorkel diving , snowmobiling , soccer , softball , spark ,
speculate , speculator , sporting , sporting man , sports , sportsman ,
squash , stalk , stalking , start , steelie , stickball , still hunt ,
still-hunt , stooge , story , surfing , swell , swimming , table tennis ,
tackle , tailback , taw , tease , teetotum , tennis , tenpins ,
tent pegging , tetherball , the vanquished , threesome , ticktacktoe ,
tiddlywinks , tilting , tinhorn , tipcat , tipster , tivoli ,
tobogganing , top ,
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