sport meaning
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- Sport (or sports) is all forms of usually competitive physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing entertainment to participants, and in some cases,
- Sport is generally recognised as activities which are based in physical athleticism or physical dexterity, with the largest major competitions such as the Olympic Games admitting only sports meeting this definition,
- Sports are usually governed by a set of rules or customs, which serve to ensure fair competition, and allow consistent adjudication of the winner. Winning can be determined by physical events such as scoring goals or crossing a line first.
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- NounPLsports
- NC Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
- NC A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
- NC Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirable manner, a good sport.
- OBS That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
- OBS Mockery; derision.
- NC A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
- NU Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.
- (biology, botany, zoology) NC 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.
- At Hortus Bulborum you will find heirloom narcissi that date back at least to the 15th century and famous old tulips like 'Duc van Tol' (1595) and its sports.
- SLA NC A sportsman; a gambler.
- SLA NC One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
- OBS NU An amorous dalliance.
- INF (usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question).
- "Say, sport!" he would say briskly.
- OBS Play; idle jingle.
- NC Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
- VerbSGsportsPRsportingPT, PPsported
- VI To amuse oneself, to play.
- children sporting on the green
- VI To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
- Jen sports with Bill's emotions.
- VT To display; to have as a notable feature.
- [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].
- (reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
- VT 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.
- VT To close (a door).
- VI To amuse oneself, to play.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- There’s Montana (Ayda Field), the sexy, slutty weatherwoman, and Marsh (Fred Willard ), the aging, politically incorrect sports commentator in loud plaid jackets.
- There will always be sports fans ready to relive and reargue the merits of celebrated professional sports teams like the 1995 Dallas Cowboys.
- The suaku (literally "mountain tortoise" and figuratively "country bumpkin") sports a beer belly, fake brand-name apparel and oil-slick hair.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- At Hortus Bulborum you will find heirloom narcissi that date back at least to the 15th century and famous old tulips like 'Duc van Tol' (1595) and its sports.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of sport in English Dictionary
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