Aphetic form ofdisport Middle English sporten ( “ to divert, disport ” ) (verb) andsport spoort sporte disporten disport disporte Old French desporter ( “ to divert, amuse, please, play; to seek amusement ” ) , etymologically meaning "to carry away (the mind from serious matters)," fromdes- porter Latin dis- Latin portāre Latin deportāre de- portāre Proto-Indo-European *per- ( “ to lead, pass over ” ) ). More atdisport . Doublet ofdisport anddeport .
sport (countable anduncountable plural sports
( countable , uncountable ) competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.Basketball is her favoritesport , and she also enjoys various othersports as well.
Sport can be an excellent form of exercise because the competition and sense of achievement can help with both motivation and pleasure.
( countable ) sportsmanship .Jen may have won, but she was sure a poorsport ; she laughed at the loser.
The loser was a goodsport , and congratulated Jen on her performance.
( countable ) good sport .You're such asport ! You never get upset when we tease you.
( archaic ) pastime ;amusement .1591 (date written),William Shakespeare , “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, [ … ] ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act III, scene ii] :Think it but a minute spent insport .
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 [ … ] [John Windet ] forWilliam Ponsonbie , published1590 ,→OCLC folio 283, recto :Hersports 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 suchsport , and the dish ran away with the spoon. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hobby ( archaic ) c. 1597 (date written),William Shakespeare , “The Merry Wiues of Windsor ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act III, scene iii] ,page58 , column 2:Why then makeſport at me, then let me be your ieſt
( countable ) 1697 Virgil , “The Sixth Book of theÆneis ”, inJohn Dryden , transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. [ … ] , London: [ … ] Jacob Tonson , [ … ] →OCLC flitting leaves, thesport of every wind
a. 1676 On Governing the Temper :Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is thesport of his own ungoverned passions.
( uncountable ) , or fishing.( biology , botany , zoology , countable ) mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such asbirth defects .2014 September 26, Charles Quest-Ritson, “The Dutch garden where tulip bulbs live forever: Hortus Bulborum, a volunteer-run Dutch garden, is dedicated to conserving historic varieties before they vanish for good [print version: Inspired by a living bulb archive, 27 September 2014, p. G5]”, inThe Daily Telegraph (Gardening)[1] 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 itssports .
( slang , countable ) sportsman ; a gambler.( slang , countable ) ( obsolete , uncountable ) dalliance .( informal , usually singular) friend oracquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question) 1924 The Rotarian [2] 25 , number 1, Rotary International, page14 :"Say,sport !" he would say briskly.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:friend Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy .Hey,sport ! You've gotten so big since I saw you last! Give me five.
( archaic ) 1725-1726 ,William Broome ,The Odyssey An author who should introduce such asport of words upon our stage [ …] would meet with small applause. From pluralsports :
Japanese:スポーツ ( supōtsu ) Korean:스포츠 ( seupocheu ) any athletic activity that uses physical skills
Afrikaans:sport (af) Albanian:sport (sq) m Amharic:ስፖርት ( səport ) Arabic:رِيَاضَة f ( riyāḍa ) Aragonese:esporte m Armenian:սպորտ (hy) ( sport ) Assamese:ক্ৰীড়া ( krira ) ,খেল ( khel ) Asturian:deporte (ast) m Azerbaijani:idman (az) ,sport (az) Bashkir:спорт ( sport ) Basque:kirol (eu) Belarusian:спорт (be) m ( sport ) Bengali:ক্রীড়া (bn) ( kriṛa ) ,খেল (bn) ( khel ) Berber:Tashelhit:(pleaseverify ) tunnunt f Bulgarian:спорт (bg) m ( sport ) Burmese:အားကစား (my) ( a:ka.ca: ) Buryat:тамир ( tamir ) ,спорт ( sport ) Carpathian Rusyn:шпорт m ( šport ) Catalan:esport (ca) m deport (ca) m Chechen:спорт ( sport ) Chinese:Cantonese:運動 / 运动 ( wan6 dung6 ) Dungan:йүндун ( yündun ) Eastern Min:運動 / 运动 ( ông-dông ) Hakka:運動 / 运动 ( yun-thung ) Hokkien:運動 / 运动 (zh-min-nan) ( ūn-tōng / ūn-tǒng ) Mandarin:運動 / 运动 (zh) ( yùndòng ) Wu:運動 / 运动 ( 6 yun-don;6 yon-don) Chuvash:спорт ( sport ) Crimean Tatar:sport Czech:sport (cs) m Danish:sport (da) c idræt (da) c Dutch:sport (nl) m Esperanto:sporto Estonian:sport (et) Extremaduran:deporti m Faroese:ítróttur m ítrótt f Finnish:urheilulaji (fi) ,kilpailulaji urheilu (fi) French:sport (fr) m Galician:deporte (gl) m xogo (gl) m Georgian:სპორტი ( sṗorṭi ) German:Sport (de) m Greek:άθλημα (el) n ( áthlima ) Ancient:ἄθλημα n ( áthlēma ) ,ἀγών m ( agṓn ) Gujarati:રમતગમત m ( ramtagmat ) ,ખેલ m ( khel ) Haitian Creole:espò Hebrew:סְפּוֹרְט (he) m ( sport ) ,מלעב ( milʿav ) ( archaic ) Hindi:वर्ज़िश f ( varziś ) ,खेल (hi) m ( khel ) ,खेल-कूद m ( khel-kūd ) ,स्पोर्ट ? ( sporṭ ) Hungarian:sport (hu) Icelandic:íþrótt (is) f Ido:sporto (io) Indonesian:olahraga (id) Irish:spórt m Italian:sport (it) m diporto (it) m Japanese:運動 (ja) ( うんどう, undō ) ,スポーツ (ja) ( supōtsu ) Kannada:ಕ್ರೀಡೆಗಳು (kn) ( krīḍegaḷu ) Kapampangan:pasiknangan Kashubian:szpòrt m Kazakh:спорт ( sport ) Khmer:កីឡា (km) ( kəylaa ) Korean:운동(運動) (ko) ( undong ) ,스포츠 (ko) ( seupocheu ) Kurdish:Central Kurdish:وەرزش (ckb) ( werziş ) Northern Kurdish:sîpor (ku) ,werziş (ku) Kyrgyz:спорт (ky) ( sport ) Lao:ກິລາ (lo) ( ki lā ) Latvian:sports m Lithuanian:spòrtas (lt) m Macedonian:спорт (mk) m ( sport ) Malay:sukan (ms) Malayalam:കായികവിനോദം ( kāyikavinōdaṁ ) ,ക്രീഡ (ml) ( krīḍa ) Maltese:sport m Manchu:ᡴᠠᡨᡠ᠋ᡵᡝᠪᡠᠨ ( katurebun ) Maori:hākinakina Marathi:खेळ (mr) m ( kheḷ ) Mirandese:çporto m Mizo:infiamna Mongolian:Cyrillic:спорт (mn) ( sport ) Mongolian:ᠰᠫᠣᠷᠲ᠋ ( sport ) Nepali:खेल (ne) ( khel ) Norwegian:Bokmål:idrett m sport (no) m Nynorsk:idrett m sport m Odia:ଖେଳ (or) ( kheḷa ) ,କ୍ରୀଡା ( kriḍā ) Pali:kīḷā f Pannonian Rusyn:спорт m ( sport ) ,шпорт m ( šport ) Pashto:ورزش m ( warzᶕš ) ,سپورټ (ps) m ( sporṭ ) Persian:Classical Persian:وَرْزِش ( warziš ) Iranian Persian:وَرْزِش ( varzeš ) Polish:sport (pl) m Portuguese:( Brazil ) esporte (pt) m ( Portugal ) desporto (pt) m Punjabi:ਖੇਡ ? ( kheḍ ) Romanian:sport (ro) n Russian:спорт (ru) m ( sport ) Sanskrit:क्रीडा (sa) f ( krīḍā ) Scottish Gaelic:spòrs f Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:спо̏рт m шпо̏рт m Roman:spȍrt (sh) m špȍrt (sh) m Sinhalese:ක්රීඩා (si) ? ( krīḍā ) Slovak:šport (sk) m Slovene:šport (sl) m Sorbian:Lower Sorbian:sport m Spanish:deporte (es) m sport (es) m ( p. us. ) Swahili:spoti (sw) ? riadha (sw) class9/10 Swedish:sport (sv) c idrott (sv) c Tagalog:palakasan Tajik:варзиш (tg) ( varziš ) ,спорт ( sport ) Tamil:விளையாட்டு (ta) ( viḷaiyāṭṭu ) Tatar:спорт ( sport ) Telugu:ఆటలు (te) ( āṭalu ) Thai:กีฬา (th) ( gii-laa ) ,สปอร์ต ( sà-bpɔ̀ɔt ) Tibetan:ལུས་རྩལ ( lus rtsal ) Tigrinya:ስፖርት ( səport ) Turkish:spor (tr) ,yöndün (tr) Turkmen:sport Ukrainian:спорт (uk) m ( sport ) Urdu:وَرْزِش (ur) f ( varziś ) ,کھیل m ( khel ) ,سْپورْٹ ( sporṭ ) Uyghur:سپورت ( sport ) ,تەنتەربىيە ( tenterbiye ) Uzbek:sport (uz) Vietnamese:thể thao (vi) (體操 Volapük:spot (vo) Walloon:spôrt (wa) m Yakut:спорт ( sport ) Yiddish:ספּאָרט ? ( sport ) Zhuang:yindung
person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship
somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirable manner
gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing
slang: sportsman; gambler
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sport (third-person singular simple present sports present participle sporting simple past and past participle sported
( intransitive ) play .childrensporting on the green
( intransitive ) Jensports with Bill's emotions.
1663 John Tillotson ,The Wisdom of being Religious :Hesports with his own life.
( transitive ) display ; to have as a notablefeature .Jen'ssporting a new pair of shoes; he wassporting a new wound from the combat
1951 Railway Magazine , page704 :But despite its plague of tunnels, the run-in on this route is of unusual interest to the locomotive enthusiast: besides the hordes of self-important saddle-tanks shunting in the extensive yards, there was at one time the chance of seeing those slender little North London engines, with their large outside cylinders and no visible storage place for coal, and also an occasional South Eastern locomotivesporting a lot of polished brass.
2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere ”, inThe Economist 408 , number8845 :[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debrissported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].
2023 June 3,Carl Zimmer , “How Did Birds First Take Off?”, inThe New York Times [3] He was especially happy to see one of the most important discoveries make it to the screen: dinosaurs thatsported feathers. But judging from the emails he has been receiving, some moviegoers did not share his excitement.
( reflexive ) divert ; toamuse ; tomake merry .( transitive ) 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 theplant or from the type of thespecies ; 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 hassported into a moss
( transitive , archaic ) close (adoor ).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.
display, have as feature
Bulgarian:демонстрирам (bg) ( demonstriram ) Czech:předvádět ukazovat (cs) ,nosit (cs) impf vystavovat na odiv German:tragen (de) ,präsentieren (de) ,zur Schau stellen angeben mit protzen mit Persian:ورزش (fa) Russian:демонстрировать (ru) impf ( demonstrirovatʹ ) Spanish:lucir (es) ,mostrar (es) ,llevar (es) Swedish:sporta (sv) ,visa upp (sv)
( sportsman, gambler ) : 1873 , John Camden Hotten,The Slang Dictionary sport m inan
sport Declension ofsport (hard masculine inanimate )
FromEnglish sport
sport c singular definite sporten not used in plural form )
sport Synonym: idræt Borrowed fromEnglish sport Middle English sport Middle English sport disport Old French desport Thisetymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
sport f plural sporten diminutive sportje n
( countable ) sport ( uncountable ) sports Mijn buurman is dol opsport . ―My neighbour is keen onsports . Darts is de gezondstesport op aarde. ―Darts is the most healthysport on Earth. FromMiddle Dutch sporte sprote Thisetymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
sport f plural sporten diminutive sportje n
rung ,step on aladder See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
sport
inflection ofsporten first / second / third-person singular present indicative imperative FromGerman Sport English sport
sport (genitive spordi partitive sporti
sport ,sports Earlier 19th century,borrowed fromEnglish sport /t/ .
sport m plural sports
sport sport (plural sportok
sport sport in Géza Bárczi ,László Országh ,et al. , editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN . Unadapted borrowing fromEnglish sport Doublet ofdiporto
sport m invariable
sport hobby ,pastime fare qualcosaper sport ―to do something for fun Borrowed fromEnglish sport
sport m inan
sport ( athletic activity that uses physical skills ) Starosta, Manfred (1999 ), “sport ”, inDolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag sport m plural sports
( Jersey ) sport (physical activity pitting two or more opponents against each other)FromEnglish sport
sport m definite singular sporten uncountable
sport Synonym: idrett See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
sport
past participle ofspore FromEnglish sport
sport m definite singular sporten uncountable
sport Synonym: idrett Borrowed fromEnglish sport
IPA (key ) : /ˈspɔrt/ Rhymes:-ɔrt Syllabification:sport sport m inan
sport sport inWielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PANsport in Polish dictionaries at PWNBorrowed fromFrench sport
sport n plural sporturi
sport
Borrowed fromEnglish sport
spȍrt m inan Cyrillic spelling спо̏рт
sport “sport ”, inHrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal 2006–2025 Borrowed fromEnglish sport
sport c
( uncountable ) sports ( countable ) sport See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
sport
supine ofspörja Borrowed fromDutch sport English sport
sport c plural sporten
sport ( physical activity ) “sport ”, inWurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch),2011 
