sport
see also: SPORT
Etymology
SPORT
Proper noun
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see also: SPORT
Etymology
From Middle English sporten and sport, spoort, sporte, apheretic shortenings of disporten and disport, disporte.
Pronunciation- (RP) IPA: /spɔːt/
- (America) IPA: /spɔɹt/
- (Tasmanian) IPA: /spɔː/
- (rhotic, non-horse-hoarse) IPA: /spo(ː)ɹt/
- (non-rhotic, non-horse-hoarse) IPA: /spoət/
sport
(countable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics. - (countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
- 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.
- (countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
- You're such a sport! You never get upset when we tease you.
- (archaic) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene ii]:
- Think it but a minute spent in sport.
- c. 1580 (date written), Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “[The Thirde Booke] Chapter 21”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC ↗, folio 283, recto ↗:
- Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight.
- a. 1765, year of origin unknown, Hey Diddle Diddle (traditional rhyme)
- The little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:hobby
- (archaic) Mockery, making fun; derision.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene iii], page 58 ↗, column 2:
- Why then make ſport at me, then let me be your ieſt
- (countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
- 1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC ↗:
- flitting leaves, the sport of every wind
- a. 1676, John Clarke, On Governing the Temper:
- Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions.
- (uncountable) Gaming for money as in racing, hunting
or fishing. - (biology, botany, zoology, countable) 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.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC ↗:
- We never shot another like it, so I do not know if it was a `sport' or a distinct species.
- (slang, countable) A sportsman; a gambler.
- (slang, countable) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
- (obsolete, uncountable) An amorous dalliance.
- (informal, usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:friend
. - Hey, sport! You've gotten so big since I saw you last! Give me five.
- (archaic) Play; idle jingle.
- 1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey
- An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage […] would meet with small applause.
- 1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey
- French: sport
- German: Sport
- Italian: sport, diporto
- Portuguese: (Brazil) esporte, (Portugal) desporto
- Russian: спорт
- Spanish: deporte
- German: Sportsmann, Sportsfrau
- Russian: спортсме́н
- Spanish: deportista
- Spanish: espécimen raro
sport (sports, present participle sporting; simple past and past participle sported)
- (intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.
- children sporting on the green
- (intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
- Jen sports with Bill's emotions.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious:
- He sports with his own life.
- (transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.
- Jen's sporting a new pair of shoes; he was sporting a new wound from the combat
- (reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
- (transitive) To represent by any kind of play.
- 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Sixth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC ↗:
- 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.
- 1860, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication:
- more than one kind of rose has sported into a moss
- (transitive, archaic) To close (a door).
- 1904, M. R. James, The Mezzotint:
- There he locked it up in a drawer, sported the doors of both sets of rooms, and retired to bed.
- French: jouer
- German: spielen, sich vergnügen, herumtollen
- Portuguese: recrear-se
- French: taquiner, moquer
- German: herumspielen, Spott treiben
- Portuguese: zombar
- Spanish: jugar, burlarse
- German: tragen, präsentieren, zur Schau stellen, angeben mit, protzen mit
- Russian: демонстрировать
- Spanish: lucir, mostrar, llevar
SPORT
Proper noun
- Acronym of Strategic Partnership On REACH Testing
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