sport
English
Etymology
From Middle English sporten (verb) and sport, spoort, sporte (noun), apheretic shortenings of disporten (verb) and disport, disporte (noun). More at disport.
Pronunciation
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Noun
sport (countable and uncountable, plural sports)
- (countable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
- (countable) Something done for fun, regardless of its design or intended purpose.
- Joe was banned from getting legal help. He seemed to view lawsuits as a sport.
- (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.
- (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.
- (obsolete) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
- (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Think it but a minute spent in sport.
- (Can we date this quote by Sir Philip Sidney and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight.
- (Can we date this quote?), Hey Diddle Diddle (traditional rhyme)
- The little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon.
- (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (obsolete) Mockery, making fun; derision.
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- Then make sport at me; then let me be your jest.
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- (countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
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- flitting leaves, the sport of every wind
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- Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions.
- (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (uncountable) Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.
- (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.
- 2014 September 26, Charles Quest-Ritson, “The Dutch garden where tulip bulbs live forever: Hortus Bulborum, a volunteer-run Dutch garden, is dedicated to conserving historic varieties before they vanish for good [print version: Inspired by a living bulb archive, 27 September 2014, p. G5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening)[1]:
- 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.
- (slang, countable) A sportsman; a gambler.
- (slang, countable) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
- (obsolete, uncountable) An amorous dalliance.
- Charlie and Lisa enjoyed a bit of sport after their hike.
- (informal, usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
- 1924 July, Ellis Butler, “The Little Tin Godlets”, in The Rotarian[2], volume 25, number 1, Rotary International, page 14:
- "Say, sport!" he would say briskly.
- (obsolete) Play; idle jingle.
- (Can we date this quote by Broome and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage would meet with small applause.
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Synonyms
- (that which diverts, and makes mirth): See also Thesaurus:hobby
- (friend or acquaintance): See also Thesaurus:friend
Derived terms
- air sport
- ask me one on sport
- autosport
- blood sport
- boardsport
- combat sport
- contact sport
- cue sport, cuesport
- dancesport
- extreme sport
- flying sport
- good sport
- individual sport
- mind sport
- motorsport
- multisport
- nonsport
- old sport
- poor sport
- professional sport
- radiosport
- spectator sport
- spoilsport
- sportfishing
- sport fish, sportfish
- sportful
- sporting
- sportive
- sport jacket
- sportless
- sportlike
- sportsman
- sportsmanship
- sport stacking
- sportswoman
- sport utility vehicle
- team sport
- watersport
- wheelchair sport
- winter sport
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Verb
sport (third-person singular simple present sports, present participle sporting, simple past and past participle sported)
- (intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.
- children sporting on the green
- (intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
- Jen sports with Bill's emotions.
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- He sports with his own life.
- (transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.
- 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
- [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, […].
- Jen's sporting a new pair of shoes; he was sporting a new wound from the combat
- (reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
- Bible, Isa. lvii. 4
- Against whom do ye sport yourselves?
- Bible, Isa. lvii. 4
- (transitive) To represent by any kind of play.
- (Can we date this quote by John Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth.
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- 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.
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- (transitive) To close (a door).
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- There he locked it up in a drawer, sported the doors of both sets of rooms, and retired to bed.
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Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
sport m inan
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English sport, from Middle English sport, from Middle English sport, from older disport, from Old French desport. First attested in the 19th century. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
sport f (plural sporten, diminutive sportje n)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch sporte, metathesised form of sprote. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
sport f (plural sporten, diminutive sportje n)
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
sport
- (deprecated template usage) first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of sporten
- (deprecated template usage) imperative of sporten
Anagrams
Estonian
Noun
sport (genitive spordi, partitive sporti)
Declension
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
sport m (plural sports)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “sport”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Noun
sport (plural sportok)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | sport | sportok |
accusative | sportot | sportokat |
dative | sportnak | sportoknak |
instrumental | sporttal | sportokkal |
causal-final | sportért | sportokért |
translative | sporttá | sportokká |
terminative | sportig | sportokig |
essive-formal | sportként | sportokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | sportban | sportokban |
superessive | sporton | sportokon |
adessive | sportnál | sportoknál |
illative | sportba | sportokba |
sublative | sportra | sportokra |
allative | sporthoz | sportokhoz |
elative | sportból | sportokból |
delative | sportról | sportokról |
ablative | sporttól | sportoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
sporté | sportoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
sportéi | sportokéi |
Possessive forms of sport | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | sportom | sportjaim |
2nd person sing. | sportod | sportjaid |
3rd person sing. | sportja | sportjai |
1st person plural | sportunk | sportjaink |
2nd person plural | sportotok | sportjaitok |
3rd person plural | sportjuk | sportjaik |
Derived terms
(Compound words):
- lovassport
- sportág
- sportdiplomácia
- sportember
- sportesemény
- sporthír
- sportlétesítmény
- sportminisztérium
- sportpálya
- sportújság
Interlingue
Noun
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Italian
Noun
sport m (uncountable)
- sport (activity that uses physical skills, often competitive)
- hobby, pastime
- fare qualcosa per sport (to do something for fun)
Derived terms
Lower Sorbian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
sport m ?
- sport (“athletic activity that uses physical skills”)
Declension
References
- Starosta, Manfred (1999) “sport”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
Norman
Noun
sport m (plural sports)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Noun
sport m (definite singular sporten, uncountable)
Synonyms
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
Verb
sport
- past participle of spore
References
- “sport” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
sport m (definite singular sporten, uncountable)
Synonyms
Derived terms
References
- “sport” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
sport m inan
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- (Croatia) špȍrt
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
spȍrt m (Cyrillic spelling спо̏рт)
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | spȍrt | spòrtovi |
genitive | sporta | sportova |
dative | sportu | sportovima |
accusative | sport | sportove |
vocative | sporte | sportovi |
locative | sportu | sportovima |
instrumental | sportom | sportovima |
Derived terms
Swedish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English sport, first used in 1857.
Pronunciation 1
Noun
sport c
Declension
Declension of sport | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | sport | sporten | sporter | sporterna |
Genitive | sports | sportens | sporters | sporternas |
Derived terms
See also
References
- sport in Nationalencyklopedin (needs an authorization fee).
- sport in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation 2
Verb
sport
Anagrams
West Frisian
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch sport, from English sport.
Pronunciation
Noun
sport c (plural sporten)
- sport (physical activity)
Further reading
- “sport”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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