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an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition

wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she was sporting a new hat"

the occupation of athletes who compete for pay

someone who engages in sports

(Maine colloquial) temporary summer resident of inland Maine

play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the playroom"

an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition

wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she was sporting a new hat"

the occupation of athletes who compete for pay

someone who engages in sports

(Maine colloquial) temporary summer resident in inland Maine

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 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.

Activities or games, usually involving physical effort or skill. Reasons for engagement in sports include pleasure, competition, and/or financial reward.

Pastime; amusement; jest or pleasantry; as, he said it in sport; mockery or derision; as, they made sport of him; outdoor play or recreation, as hunting, shooting, etc.; an athletic game; colloquially, a gambler or a cheap, flashy person.

To play or frolic; to practice field diversions, such as athletic contests.

An organism varying in whole or in part, without apparent reason, from others of its type; this variation may be transmitted to the descendants or the latter may revert to the original type.

To play: to frolic: to practice field diversions: to trifle.

To amuse: to make merry: to represent playfully.

That which amuses or makes merry: play: mirth: jest: contemptuous mirth: anything for playing with: a toy: idle jingle: field diversion: any organism deviating from the normal or natural condition; an aberrant natural production; a monstrosity; a lusus naturae; as, "Yes-I nursed thee, thou monstrous sport of nature."-Byron; specifically, in bot. a plant that assumes a character and appearance distinct from the normal type, a bud or portion of a plant that assumes such a form.

Play; mirth; diversion; mocker.

To play; frolic; trifle.

To display ostentatiously.

To play; frolic; jest.

Diversion; pastime; a game or play; pleasantry; raillery.

To display ostentatiously.

Mirth; diversion; contemptuous mirth plaything; play; diversion of the field, as fowiing, hunting, or fishing.

To divert; to represent by any kind of play.

To play; trifle.

Diversion; anything which makes merry; the mirth or pleasure thus produced; play; frolic; mockery; fowling, hunting, or fishing.

To divert; to make merry; to frolic; to jest; to trifle; in familiar language, to exhibit or wear, as an article of dress.

A lusus naturae, or freak of Nature.

n. [Dutch] Play; diversion; game ; - that which diverts and makes mirth;-contemptuous mirth; -that with which one plays, or which is driven about ; a toy;-diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, and the like ; -play on words ; jingle ;-jeer.