English Explanatory Dictionary

sport

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
  2. A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
  3. Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
  4. Something fun, pastime; amusement.
  5. Mockery, making fun; derision.
  6. A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
  7. Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, or fishing.
  8. 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.
  9. A sportsman; a gambler.
  10. One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
  11. An amorous dalliance.
  12. A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
verb
  1. To amuse oneself, to play.
  2. To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
  3. To display; to have as a notable feature.
  4. To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
  5. To represent by any kind of play.
  6. To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
  7. 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.
  8. To close (a door).
name
  1. Acronym of Strategic Partnership On REACH Testing.

Pronunciation

/spɔːt/ /spɔɹt/ [spɔɹʔ] /spɔː/ /spo(ː)ɹt/ /spoət/ en-us-sport.ogg

Word forms

sport sports sporting sported

Etymology

From Middle English sporten (“to divert, disport”, verb) and sport, spoort, sporte (noun), apheretic shortenings of disporten (verb) and disport, disporte (noun), from Old French desporter (“to divert, amuse, please, play; to seek amusement”), etymologically meaning "to carry away (the mind from serious matters)," from des- + porter, from Latin dis- + Latin portāre, ultimately from Latin deportāre, from de- + portāre, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to lead, pass over”)). Replaced native English laik, lake (“sport, fun, amusement”), and Middle English spile, spyl (“fun, sport, play”). More at disport. Doublet of disport and deport.

Synonyms

amusement avocation diversion divertisement fancy hobby kill-time pastime pursuit sport babber billy bredrin bruv bud buddo buddy butty chaver china chuck chum cock cocker cobber compadre comrade companion cove crony dawg dude duck fam fettler friend geez geezer gink good old boy homeskillet homie kith lover marrow mate matey mucker old bean pal pardner peeps punk shag surry tovarish wantok

Derived words

action sport adrenaline sport adventure sport adventurous sport air sport antisport ask me one about sport ask me one on sport autosport bad sport blood sport boardsport cardiosport combat sport contact sport cue sport cuesport cybersport cycle sport dancesport demonstration sport disability sport disabled sport electronic sport eSport e-sport e-sports extreme sport fantasy sports field sport flying sport for sport good sport gravity sport hardsport individual sport junk sport locksport LudoSport make-sport make sport of mar-sport mind sport motorbike sport motorcycle sport motorsport multi-sport multisport national sports team nonsport old sport outsport paddlesport para-sport parasport poor sport powersport professional sport pseudosport racket sport
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