Definition of sport

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Sport (n.) Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked..

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Pursuit :: Pursuit (v. t.) The act of following or going after; esp., a following with haste, either for sport or in hostility; chase; prosecution; as, the pursuit of game; the pursuit of an enemy..
Drogher :: Drogher (n.) A small craft used in the West India Islands to take off sugars, rum, etc., to the merchantmen; also, a vessel for transporting lumber, cotton, etc., coastwise; as, a lumber drogher..
Sportingly :: Sporting (a.) Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports..
Levity :: Levity (n.) Lack of gravity and earnestness in deportment or character; trifling gayety; frivolity; sportiveness; vanity.
Ridicule :: Ridicule (n.) An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
Divert :: Divert (v. t.) To turn away from any occupation, business, or study; to cause to have lively and agreeable sensations; to amuse; to entertain; as, children are diverted with sports; men are diverted with works of wit and humor..
Ploy :: Ploy (n.) Sport; frolic.
Paddock :: Paddock (n.) A small inclosure or park for sporting.
Game :: Game (v. i.) Sport of any kind; jest, frolic..
Sporting :: Sportful (a.) Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive..
Batfowler :: Batfowler (n.) One who practices or finds sport in batfowling.
Pack :: Pack (v. i.) To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass; as, the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well..
Sporting :: Sported (imp. & p. p.) of Spor.
Transfer :: Transfer (v. t.) To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion..
Racket :: Racket (v. i.) To engage in noisy sport; to frolic.
Quizzical :: Quizzical (a.) Relating to quizzing: given to quizzing; of the nature of a quiz; farcical; sportive.
Ludibrious :: Ludibrious (a.) Sportive; ridiculous; wanton.
Make :: Make (v. i.) To proceed; to tend; to move; to go; as, he made toward home; the tiger made at the sportsmen..
Merry-andrew :: Merry-andrew (n.) One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor..
Overjoy :: Overjoy (n.) Excessive joy; transport.
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