sport
/spoɹt/ verb B2- To amuse oneself, to play. · children sporting on the green
- To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with. · Jen sports with Bill's emotions.
- To display; to have as a notable feature. · Jen's sporting a new pair of shoes; he was sporting a new wound from the combat
- To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
- To represent by any kind of play.
- To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
- To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
He/she/it sports · Past sported · Past participle sported · -ing form sporting
Verb forms
- Base form
- sport
- He/she/it
- sports
- Past
- sported
- Past participle
- sported
- -ing form
- sporting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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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.
He boards same place as I do, and he’s a sport.
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