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/spawrt, spohrt/, n.1. an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.2. a particular form of this, esp. in the out of doors.3. diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime.4. jest; fun; mirth; pleasantry: What he said in sport was taken seriously.5. mockery; ridicule; derision: They made sport of him.6. an object of derision; laughingstock.7. something treated lightly or tossed about like a plaything.8. something or someone subject to the whims or vicissitudes of fate, circumstances, etc.9. a sportsman.10. Informal. a person who behaves in a sportsmanlike, fair, or admirable manner; an accommodating person: He was a sport and took his defeat well.11. Informal. a person who is interested in sports as an occasion for gambling; gambler.12. Informal. a flashy person; one who wears showy clothes, affects smart manners, pursues pleasurable pastimes, or the like; a bon vivant.13. Biol. an organism or part that shows an unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; mutation.14. Obs. amorous dalliance.adj.15. of, pertaining to, or used in sports or a particular sport.16. suitable for outdoor or informal wear: sport clothes.v.i.17. to amuse oneself with some pleasant pastime or recreation.18. to play, frolic, or gambol, as a child or an animal.19. to engage in some open-air or athletic pastime or sport.20. to trifle or treat lightly: to sport with another's emotions.21. to mock, scoff, or tease: to sport at suburban life.22. Bot. to mutate.v.t.25. Informal. to wear, display, carry, etc., esp. with ostentation; show off: to sport a new mink coat.[1350-1400; ME; aph. var. of DISPORT]
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