Word Definition

Sport

  1. To trifle.
  2. Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.
  3. Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
  4. To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage.
  5. To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off epigrams.
  6. A sportsman; a gambler.
  7. To play; to frolic; to wanton.
  8. That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
  9. 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. See Sporting plant, under Sporting.
  10. To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun.
  11. 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. See Sport, n., 6.
  12. To represent by any knd of play.
  13. That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
  14. Play; idle jingle.
  15. To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.