sport
noun
[ spɔːt ]
• an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.
• "team sports such as soccer and rugby"
Similar:
(competitive) game(s),
physical recreation,
physical activity,
physical exercise,
pastime,
• a person who behaves in a good or specified way in response to teasing, defeat, or a similarly trying situation.
• "go on, be a sport!"
• an animal or plant showing abnormal or striking variation from the parent type, especially in form or colour, as a result of spontaneous mutation.
sport
verb
• wear or display (a distinctive item).
• "he was sporting a huge handlebar moustache"
• play in a lively, energetic way.
• "the children sported in the water"
Similar:
play,
have fun,
amuse oneself,
entertain oneself,
enjoy oneself,
divert oneself,
frolic,
gambol,
frisk,
romp,
cavort,
caper,
lark about,
lark around,
disport oneself,
wanton,
rollick,
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘pastime, entertainment’): shortening of disport.
in sport
• for fun.
• "I have assumed the name was given more or less in sport"
