sport
/spoɹt/ noun A1- Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics. · Basketball is her favorite sport, and she also enjoys various other sports as well.· Sport can be an excellent form of exercise because the competition and sense of achievement can help with both motivation and pleasure.
- A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship. · Jen may have won, but she was sure a poor sport; she laughed at the loser.· The loser was a good sport, and congratulated Jen on her performance.
- Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport. · You're such a sport! You never get upset when we tease you.
- A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
- Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, or fishing.
- 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. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.
- A sportsman; a gambler.
- One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
Plural sports
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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He says he’s no bum guy; and, lady, yer read dat letter, and I’ll bet yer he’s a white sport, all right.”
The sport—the excitement—the danger!"
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.
Besides, he may make better sport for you when he is grown.
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