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
Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane Austen
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
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard Shaw
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
The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means.
Andy Rooney
In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.
Mike Krzyzewski
I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.
Mike Krzyzewski
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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