sport
/spoɹt/ sustantivo A1En español: deporte, sport, deportista, juguete
- 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 y expresiones
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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.”
Besides, he may make better sport for you when he is grown.
“Unless and until they drop him from the branches in sport, or kill him out of idleness, I have no fear for the man-cub.
They would sit in circles on the hall of the king’s council chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them, and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up and down the terraces of the king’s garden, where they would shake the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers fall.
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