Definition of Sport

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Definition of Sport

Sport

That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.

Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.

That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.

Play; idle jingle.

Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.

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.

A sportsman; a gambler.

To play; to frolic; to wanton.

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

To trifle.

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.

To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun.

To represent by any knd of play.

To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage.

To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off epigrams.

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Sport Quotations

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
Tiger Woods

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane Austen

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
Lord Byron

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
Dave Barry

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.
Mike Tyson

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
Jackie Robinson

Sport Translations

sport in Afrikaans is sport
sport in Danish is sport
sport in Dutch is sport
sport in French is sport, sports
sport in German is Sportart, Sport
sport in Latin is ludus
sport in Portuguese is esporte
sport in Spanish is deporte

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