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Definitions for Sports

[1] of or relating to a sport or sports, especially of the open-air or athletic kind: a sports festival.
[2] (of garments, equipment, etc.) suitable for use in open-air sports or for outdoor or informal use.
[3] an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
[4] a particular form of this, especially in the out of doors.
[5] sports, (used with a singular verb ) such athletic activities collectively: Sports is important in my life.
[6] diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime.
[7] jest; fun; mirth; pleasantry: What he said in sport was taken seriously.
[8] mockery; ridicule; derision: They made sport of him.
[9] an object of derision; laughingstock.
[10] something treated lightly or tossed about like a plaything.
[11] something or someone subject to the whims or vicissitudes of fate, circumstances, etc.
[12] a sportsman.
[13] Informal . a person who behaves in a sportsmanlike, fair, or admirable manner; an accommodating person: He was a sport and took his defeat well.
[14] Informal . a person who is interested in sports as an occasion for gambling; gambler.
[15] Informal . a flashy person; one who wears showy clothes, affects smart manners, pursues pleasurable pastimes, or the like; a bon vivant.
[16] Biology . an organism or part that shows an unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; mutation.
[17] Obsolete . amorous dalliance.
[18] of, relating to, or used in sports or a particular sport:sport fishing.
[19] suitable for outdoor or informal wear: sport clothes.
[20] to amuse oneself with some pleasant pastime or recreation.
[21] to play, frolic, or gambol, as a child or an animal.
[22] to engage in some open-air or athletic pastime or sport.
[23] to trifle or treat lightly: to sport with another's emotions.
[24] to mock, scoff, or tease: to sport at suburban life.
[25] Botany . to mutate.
[26] to pass (time) in amusement or sport.
[27] to spend or squander lightly or recklessly (often followed by away ).
[28] Informal . to wear, display, carry, etc., especially with ostentation; show off: to sport a new mink coat.
[29] Archaic . to amuse (especially oneself).
[30] (modifier) relating to, concerned with, or used in sports sports equipment
[31] (modifier) relating to or similar to a sports car sports seats
[32] Also called: sports day British a meeting held at a school or college for competitions in various athletic events
[33] an individual or group activity pursued for exercise or pleasure, often involving the testing of physical capabilities and taking the form of a competitive game such as football, tennis, etc
[34] such activities considered collectively
[35] any particular pastime indulged in for pleasure
[36] the pleasure derived from a pastime, esp hunting, shooting, or fishing we had good sport today
[37] playful or good-humoured joking to say a thing in sport
[38] derisive mockery or the object of such mockery to make sport of someone
[39] someone or something that is controlled by external influences the sport of fate
[40] informal (sometimes qualified by good, bad, etc ) a person who reacts cheerfully in the face of adversity, esp a good loser
[41] informal a person noted for being scrupulously fair and abiding by the rules of a game
[42] informal a person who leads a merry existence, esp a gambler he's a bit of a sport
[43] Australian and NZ informal a form of address used esp between males
[44] biology an animal or plant that differs conspicuously in one or more aspects from other organisms of the same species, usually because of a mutation an anomalous characteristic of such an organism
[45] (tr) informal to wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner she was sporting a new hat
[46] (intr) to skip about or frolic happily
[47] to amuse (oneself), esp in outdoor physical recreation
[48] (intr often foll by with ) to dally or trifle (with)
[49] (tr often foll by away ) rare to squander (time or money) sporting one's life away
[50] (intr often foll by with ) archaic to make fun (of)
[51] (intr) biology to produce or undergo a mutation

Words related to Sports

fun, athletics, pastime, game, don, play, recreation, ball, picnic, disport, gaiety, diversion, exercise, action, pleasure, frolic, amusement, games, teasing, nonsense

Words nearby Sports

sporting chance, a, sporting dog, sporting house, sporting lady, sportive, sports, sports bar, sports bra, sports cap, sports car, sports coat

Origin of Sports

1350–1400; Middle English; aphetic variant of disport

Other words from Sports

sport·ful , adjective
sport·ful·ly , adverb
sport·ful·ness , noun
sport·less , adjective
out·sport , verb (used with object)
un·sport·ed , adjective
un·sport·ful , adjective

Word origin for Sports

C15 sporten, variant of disporten to disport

Synonyms for Sports

athletics, fun, game, pastime, action, amusement, ball, disport, diversion, exercise, frolic, gaiety, games, picnic, play, pleasure, recreation, fun and games, physical activity