Definition of sport

"sport" in the noun sense

1. sport, athletics

an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition

2. sport

the occupation of athletes who compete for pay

3. sport, summercater

Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine

4. sport

a person known for the way she (or he) behaves when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances

"a good sport"

"a poor sport"

5. sport, sportsman, sportswoman

someone who engages in sports

6. mutant, mutation, variation, sport

biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration

7. fun, play, sport

verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously

"he became a figure of fun"

"he said it in sport"

"sport" in the verb sense

1. sport, feature, boast

wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner

"she was sporting a new hat"

2. frolic, lark, rollick, skylark, disport, sport, cavort, gambol, frisk, romp, run around, lark about

play boisterously

"The children frolicked in the garden"

"the gamboling lambs in the meadows"

"The toddlers romped in the playroom"

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Quotations for sport

Alas! we are the sport of destiny. [ Thackeray ]

Misery makes sport to mock itself. [ William Shakespeare ]

A day for toil, an hour for sport.
But for a friend is life too short. [ Emerson ]

Earnest and sport go well together. [ Danish Proverb ]

That is good sport that fills the belly. [ Proverb ]

The victor's pastime, and the sport of war. [ Prior ]

When age is jocund it makes sport for death. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods;
They kill us for their sport. [ William Shakespeare ]

What is sport to the cat is death to the mouse. [ Opitz ]

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together;
Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care;
Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather;
Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.
Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short;
Youth is nimble, age is lame;
Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold;
Youth is wild, and age is tame.
Age, I do abhor thee; youth I do adore thee. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The mind, relaxing into needful sport,
Should turn to writers of an abler sort.
Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,
Give truth a lustre and make wisdom smile. [ Cowper ]

Dreams, which, beneath the hov'ring shades of night.
Sport with the ever-restless minds of men.
Descend not from the gods. Each busy brain
Creates its own. [ Thomas Love Peacock ]

There is no such sport as sport by sport overthrown. [ William Shakespeare ]

The spell is thine that reaches
The heart, and makes the wisest head its sport;
And there's one rare, strange virtue in thy speeches,
The secret of their mastery - they are short. [ Halleck ]

Genius works in sport, and goodness smiles to the last. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The best of the sport is to do the deed and say nothing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

When a goose dances, and a fool versifies, there is sport. [ Proverb ]

Detested sport, that owes its pleasures to another's pain. [ Cowper ]

He that laughs when he is alone will make sport in company. [ Proverb ]

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly. [ Hazlitt ]

Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport the world knows. [ Theodore Roosevelt ]

Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the overmastering present. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Men are the sport of circumstances, when the circumstances seem the sport of men. [ Byron ]

Heaven makes sport of human affairs, and the present hour gives no sure promise of the next. [ Ovid ]

The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets. [ Saadi ]

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on the earth in the night season, and melt away with the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world. [ Dickens ]

Why doth Fate, that often bestows thousands of souls on a conqueror or tyrant, to be the sport of his passions, so often deny to the tenderest and most feeling hearts one kindred one on which to lavish their affections? Why is it that Love must so often sigh in vain for an object, and Hate never? [ Richter ]

Though no participator in the joys of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures, in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practice toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

sport in Scrabble®

The word sport is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters sport:

PORTS
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SPORT
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STROP
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sport in Words With Friends™

The word sport is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters sport:

SPORT
(48)
PORTS
(48)
STROP
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Word Growth involving sport

Shorter words in sport

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Longer words containing sport

bloodsport bloodsports

crossport crossports

multisport

passport passportless

passport passports

spoilsport spoilsports

sported outsported

sported transported cotransported

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sportier

sportiest

sportily

sportiness

sporting nonsporting

sporting outsporting

sporting sportingly unsportingly

sporting transporting cotransporting

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sporting unsporting unsportingly

sportive sportively

sports bloodsports

sports crossports

sports outsports

sports passports

sports spoilsports

sports sportscast sportscaster sportscasters

sports sportscast sportscasting

sports sportscast sportscasts

sports sportsjacket sportsjackets

sports sportsman sportsmanlike unsportsmanlike

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sports sportsman sportsmanship sportsmanships

sports sportsmen

sports sportspeople

sports sportsperson sportspersons

sports sportswear

sports sportswoman

sports sportswomen

sports sportswriter sportswriters

sports transports cotransports

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sports watersports

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