Sport (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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, especially in the out of doors.
  3. such athletic activities collectively: Sports is important in my life.
  4. diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime.
  5. jest; fun; mirth; pleasantry: What he said in sport was taken seriously.
  6. mockery; ridicule; derision: They made sport of him.
  7. an object of derision; laughingstock.
  8. something treated lightly or tossed about like a plaything.
  9. something or someone subject to the whims or vicissitudes of fate, circumstances, etc.
  10. a sportsman.
  11. a person who behaves in a sportsmanlike, fair, or admirable manner; an accommodating person: He was a sport and took his defeat well.
  12. a person who is interested in sports as an occasion for gambling; gambler.
  13. a flashy person; one who wears showy clothes, affects smart manners, pursues pleasurable pastimes, or the like; a bon vivant.
  14. an organism or part that shows an unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; mutation.
  15. amorous dalliance.
adjective Also sports .
  1. of, relating to, or used in sports or a particular sport:sport fishing.
  2. suitable for outdoor or informal wear: sport clothes.
verb (used without object)
  1. to amuse oneself with some pleasant pastime or recreation.
  2. to play, frolic, or gambol, as a child or an animal.
  3. to engage in some open-air or athletic pastime or sport.
  4. to trifle or treat lightly: to sport with another's emotions.
  5. to mock, scoff, or tease: to sport at suburban life.
  6. mutate (def. 4).
verb (used with object)
  1. to pass (time) in amusement or sport.
  2. to spend or squander lightly or recklessly (often followed by away).
  3. to wear, display, carry, etc., especially with ostentation: Celebs are frequently seen sporting a wide array of designer handbags.
  4. to amuse (especially oneself).
Idioms
  1. oak (def. 5).
noun
  1. 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
  2. such activities considered collectively
  3. any particular pastime indulged in for pleasure
  4. the pleasure derived from a pastime, esp hunting, shooting, or fishing
  5. playful or good-humoured joking
  6. derisive mockery or the object of such mockery
  7. someone or something that is controlled by external influences
  8. a person who reacts cheerfully in the face of adversity, esp a good loser
  9. a person noted for being scrupulously fair and abiding by the rules of a game
  10. a person who leads a merry existence, esp a gambler
  11. a form of address used esp between males
  12. 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
verb
  1. to wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner
  2. to skip about or frolic happily
  3. to amuse (oneself), esp in outdoor physical recreation
  4. to dally or trifle (with)
  5. to squander (time or money)
  6. to make fun (of)
  7. to produce or undergo a mutation
Sport (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

More Definitions