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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Sport \Sport\ (sp[=o]rt), n. [Abbreviated from disport.] 1. That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement. [1913 Webster] It is as sport to a fool to do mischief. --Prov. x. 23. [1913 Webster] Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster] Think it but a minute spent in sport. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision. [1913 Webster] Then make sport at me; then let me be your jest. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery. [1913 Webster] Flitting leaves, the sport of every wind. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions. --John Clarke. [1913 Webster] 4. Play; idle jingle. [1913 Webster] An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage would meet with small applause. --Broome. [1913 Webster] 5. Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked. [1913 Webster] 6. (Bot. & Zool.) 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. See {Sporting plant}, under {Sporting}. [1913 Webster] 7. A sportsman; a gambler. [Slang] [1913 Webster] {In sport}, in jest; for play or diversion. "So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in sport?" --Prov. xxvi. 19. [1913 Webster] Syn: Play; game; diversion; frolic; mirth; mock; mockery; jeer. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Sport \Sport\, v. t. 1. To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun. [1913 Webster] Against whom do ye sport yourselves? --Isa. lvii. 4. [1913 Webster] 2. To represent by any kind of play. [1913 Webster] Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage. [Colloq.] --Grose. [1913 Webster] 4. To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off epigrams. [R.] --Addison. [1913 Webster] {To sport one's oak}. See under {Oak}, n. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Sport \Sport\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sported}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sporting}.] 1. To play; to frolic; to wanton. [1913 Webster] [Fish], sporting with quick glance, Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races. [1913 Webster] 3. To trifle. "He sports with his own life." --Tillotson. [1913 Webster] 4. (Bot. & Zool.) 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. See {Sport}, n., 6. --Darwin. [1913 Webster] Syn: To play; frolic; game; wanton. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: sport n 1: an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition [syn: {sport}, {athletics}] 2: the occupation of athletes who compete for pay 3: (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine [syn: {sport}, {summercater}] 4: a person known for the way she (or he) behaves when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances; "a good sport"; "a poor sport" 5: someone who engages in sports [syn: {sport}, {sportsman}, {sportswoman}] 6: (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration [syn: {mutant}, {mutation}, {variation}, {sport}] 7: verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously); "he became a figure of fun"; "he said it in sport" [syn: {fun}, {play}, {sport}] v 1: wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she was sporting a new hat" [syn: {sport}, {feature}, {boast}] 2: play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the playroom" [syn: {frolic}, {lark}, {rollick}, {skylark}, {disport}, {sport}, {cavort}, {gambol}, {frisk}, {romp}, {run around}, {lark about}] From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: sport /spɔʀ/ sport From Italian-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-ita-eng]: sport sport From Swedish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-swe-eng]: sport sport From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]: Sport /ʃpɔrt/ sport From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]: sport /spɔrt/ sport From Danish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 [fd-dan-eng]: sport sport