sport

sport / spôrt/ • n. 1. an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment: team sports such as baseball and soccer | [as adj.] (sports) a sports center. ∎ dated entertainment; fun: it was considered great sport to trip him up. ∎ archaic a source of amusement or entertainment: I do not wish to show myself the sport of a man like Williams. 2. inf. a person who behaves in a good or specified way in response to teasing, defeat, or a similarly trying situation: go on, be a sport! Angela's a bad sport. 3. Biol. an animal or plant showing abnormal or striking variation from the parent type, esp. in form or color, as a result of spontaneous mutation. • v. 1. [tr.] wear or display (a distinctive or noticeable item): he was sporting a huge handlebar mustache. 2. [intr.] amuse oneself or play in a lively, energetic way: the children sported in the water. PHRASES: in sport for fun: I have assumed the name was given more or less in sport. make sport of dated make fun of. the sport of kings horse racing.DERIVATIVES: sport·er n.