Sports

adjective
1.
of or relating to a sport or sports, especially of the open-air or athletic kind:
a sports festival.
2.
(of garments, equipment, etc.) suitable for use in open-air sports, or for outdoor or informal use.
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.
sports, (used with a singular verb) 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.
Informal. a person who behaves in a sportsmanlike, fair, or admirable manner; an accommodating person:
He was a sport and took his defeat well.
12.
Informal. a person who is interested in sports as an occasion for gambling; gambler.
13.
Informal. a flashy person; one who wears showy clothes, affects smart manners, pursues pleasurable pastimes, or the like; a bon vivant.
14.
Biology. an organism or part that shows an unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; mutation.
15.
Obsolete. amorous dalliance.
adjective
16.
of, relating to, or used in sports or a particular sport.
17.
suitable for outdoor or informal wear:
sport clothes.
verb (used without object)
18.
to amuse oneself with some pleasant pastime or recreation.
19.
to play, frolic, or gambol, as a child or an animal.
20.
to engage in some open-air or athletic pastime or sport.
21.
to trifle or treat lightly:
to sport with another’s emotions.
22.
to mock, scoff, or tease:
to sport at suburban life.
23.
Botany. to mutate.
verb (used with object)
24.
to pass (time) in amusement or sport.
25.
to spend or squander lightly or recklessly (often followed by away).
26.
Informal. to wear, display, carry, etc., especially with ostentation; show off:
to sport a new mink coat.
27.
Archaic. to amuse (especially oneself).
Idioms
28.
sport one’s oak. oak (def 5).
noun
1.
(modifier) relating to, concerned with, or used in sports: sports equipment
2.
(modifier) relating to or similar to a sports car: sports seats
3.
(Brit) Also called sports day. a meeting held at a school or college for competitions in various athletic events
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: we had good sport today
5.
playful or good-humoured joking: to say a thing in sport
6.
derisive mockery or the object of such mockery: to make sport of someone
7.
someone or something that is controlled by external influences: the sport of fate
8.
(informal) sometimes qualified by good, bad, etc. a person who reacts cheerfully in the face of adversity, esp a good loser
9.
(informal) a person noted for being scrupulously fair and abiding by the rules of a game
10.
(informal) a person who leads a merry existence, esp a gambler: he’s a bit of a sport
11.
(Austral & NZ, informal) 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
13.
(transitive) (informal) to wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner: she was sporting a new hat
14.
(intransitive) to skip about or frolic happily
15.
to amuse (oneself), esp in outdoor physical recreation
16.
(intransitive) often foll by with. to dally or trifle (with)
17.
(rare) (transitive) often foll by away. to squander (time or money): sporting one’s life away
18.
(archaic) (intransitive) often foll by with. to make fun (of)
19.
(intransitive) (biology) to produce or undergo a mutation
spoony