sport

Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.countableuncountable

• Basketball is her favorite sport, and she also enjoys various other sports as well.
• Sport can be an excellent form of exercise because the competition and sense of achievement can help with both motivation and pleasure.

A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.countable

• Jen may have won, but she was sure a poor sport; she laughed at the loser.
• The loser was a good sport, and congratulated Jen on her performance.

Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.countable

• You're such a sport! You never get upset when we tease you.

Something fun, pastime; amusement.archaiccountableuncountable

• The little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon.

Mockery, making fun; derision.archaiccountableuncountable

• Why then make ſport at me, then let me be your ieſt

A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.countable

• flitting leaves, the sport of every wind
• Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions.

Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, or fishing.uncountable

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.countable

• We never shot another like it, so I do not know if it was a `sport' or a distinct species.
• At Hortus Bulborum you will find heirloom narcissi that date back at least to the 15th century and famous old tulips like 'Duc van Tol' (1595) and its sports.

A sportsman; a gambler.countableslang

• See my dressed like all the sports/In my blazer and a pair of shorts.

One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.countableslang

To amuse oneself, to play.intransitive

• children sporting on the green

To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.intransitive

• Jen sports with Bill's emotions.

To display; to have as a notable feature.transitive

• Jen's sporting a new pair of shoes; he was sporting a new wound from the combat

To divert; to amuse; to make merry.reflexive

• Against whom do ye sport yourselves?

To represent by any kind of play.transitive

• Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth.

To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.

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.

• more than one kind of rose has sported into a moss

To close (a door).archaictransitive

• There he locked it up in a drawer, sported the doors of both sets of rooms, and retired to bed.