sports
/spɔːɹts/ verb C2- To participate in sports; typically used by a person with little interest in the subject to derisively elide details of the activity in question.
He/she/it sportses · Past sportsed · Past participle sportsed · -ing form sportsing
Verb forms
- Base form
- sports
- He/she/it
- sportses
- Past
- sportsed
- Past participle
- sportsed
- -ing form
- sportsing
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A MAN had two dogs: a Hound, trained to assist him in his sports, and a Housedog, taught to watch the house.
All field sports were over.
Anne had sat among the stumps and wept, not without an eye to the romance of it; but she was speedily consoled, for, after all, as she and Diana said, big girls of thirteen, going on fourteen, were too old for such childish amusements as playhouses, and there were more fascinating sports to be found about the pond.
Of course, later start times can cause problems for parents' work schedules and after-school sports, so not every school has been able to change.
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