- 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.
- a particular form of this, especially in the out of doors.
- such athletic activities collectively: Sports is important in my life.
- diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime.
- jest; fun; mirth; pleasantry: What he said in sport was taken seriously.
- mockery; ridicule; derision: They made sport of him.
- an object of derision; laughingstock.
- something treated lightly or tossed about like a plaything.
- something or someone subject to the whims or vicissitudes of fate, circumstances, etc.
- a sportsman.
- a person who behaves in a sportsmanlike, fair, or admirable manner; an accommodating person: He was a sport and took his defeat well.
- a person who is interested in sports as an occasion for gambling; gambler.
- a flashy person; one who wears showy clothes, affects smart manners, pursues pleasurable pastimes, or the like; a bon vivant.
- an organism or part that shows an unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; mutation.
- amorous dalliance.
- of, relating to, or used in sports or a particular sport:sport fishing.
- suitable for outdoor or informal wear: sport clothes.
- to amuse oneself with some pleasant pastime or recreation.
- to play, frolic, or gambol, as a child or an animal.
- to engage in some open-air or athletic pastime or sport.
- to trifle or treat lightly: to sport with another's emotions.
- to mock, scoff, or tease: to sport at suburban life.
- mutate (def. 4).
- to pass (time) in amusement or sport.
- to spend or squander lightly or recklessly (often followed by away).
- to wear, display, carry, etc., especially with ostentation: Celebs are frequently seen sporting a wide array of designer handbags.
- to amuse (especially oneself).
- an individual or group activity pursued for exercise or pleasure, often involving the testing of physical capabilities and taking the form of a competitive game such as football, tennis, etc
- such activities considered collectively
- any particular pastime indulged in for pleasure
- the pleasure derived from a pastime, esp hunting, shooting, or fishing
- playful or good-humoured joking
- derisive mockery or the object of such mockery
- someone or something that is controlled by external influences
- a person who reacts cheerfully in the face of adversity, esp a good loser
- a person noted for being scrupulously fair and abiding by the rules of a game
- a person who leads a merry existence, esp a gambler
- a form of address used esp between males
- biology
- an animal or plant that differs conspicuously in one or more aspects from other organisms of the same species, usually because of a mutation
- an anomalous characteristic of such an organism
- to wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner
- to skip about or frolic happily
- to amuse (oneself), esp in outdoor physical recreation
- to dally or trifle (with)
- to squander (time or money)
- to make fun (of)
- to produce or undergo a mutation
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