sport
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noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)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.
- 2.
(countable)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.
- 3.
(countable)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.
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(archaic, countable, uncountable)Something fun, pastime; amusement.
The little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon.
Đồng nghĩa: amusement, avocation, diversion, divertisement, fancy, hobby, kill-time, pastime, pursuit, sport
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(archaic, countable, uncountable)Mockery, making fun; derision.
- 6.
(countable)A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
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(uncountable)Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, or fishing.
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(countable)(biology, botany, zoology, countable) 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.
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(countable, slang)A sportsman; a gambler.
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(countable, slang)One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
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(obsolete, uncountable)An amorous dalliance.
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(countable, informal, singular, uncountable, usually)(informal, usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
Đồng nghĩa: babber, billy, bredrin, bruv, bud, buddo, buddy, butty, chaver, china, chuck, chum, cock, cocker, cobber, compadre, comrade, companion, cove, crony, dawg, dude, duck, fam, fettler, friend, geez, geezer, gink, good old boy, homeskillet, homie, kith, lover, marrow, mate, matey, mucker, old bean, pal, pardner, peeps, punk, shag, sport, surry, tovarish, wantok
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(countable, uncountable)Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy.
Hey, sport! You've gotten so big since I saw you last! Give me five.
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(archaic, countable, uncountable)Play; idle jingle.
1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage […] would meet with small applause.
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verb- 1.
(intransitive)To amuse oneself, to play.
children sporting on the green
- 2.
(intransitive)To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
Jen sports with Bill's emotions.
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(transitive)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
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(reflexive)To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
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(transitive)To represent by any kind of play.
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To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
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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.
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(archaic, transitive)To close (a door).
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From Middle English sporten (to divert, disport) and sport, spoort, sporte, apheretic shortenings of disporten and disport, disporte, from Old French desporter (to divert, amuse, please, play; to seek amusement), etymologically meaning "to carry away (the mind from serious matters)," from des-- + porter, from Latin dis- + Latin portāre, ultimately from Latin deportāre, from de-- + portāre, from Pr…