sport

It is as sport to a fool to do mischief. --Prov. x. 23.
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Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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Think it but a minute spent in sport. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

2. Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision. [1913 Webster]

Then make sport at me; then let me be your jest. --Shak.
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3. That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
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Flitting leaves, the sport of every wind. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions.
--John Clarke.
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4. Play; idle jingle. [1913 Webster]

An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage would meet with small applause.
--Broome.
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5. Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.
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6. (Bot. & Zo"ol.) 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. See {Sporting
plant}, under {Sporting}.
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7. A sportsman; a gambler. Slang [1913 Webster]

In sport, in jest; for play or diversion. ``So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in
sport? --Prov. xxvi. 19.
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Syn: Play; game; diversion; frolic; mirth; mock; mockery; jeer.
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Sport Sport, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sported; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sporting}.]
1. To play; to frolic; to wanton.
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Fish, sporting with quick glance, Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold.
--Milton.
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2. To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
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3. To trifle. ``He sports with his own life. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster]

4. (Bot. & Zo"ol.) 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.
See {Sport}, n., 6. --Darwin.
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Syn: To play; frolic; game; wanton. [1913 Webster]

Sport Sport, v. t. 1. To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the
reciprocal pronoun.
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Against whom do ye sport yourselves? --Isa. lvii. 4.
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2. To represent by any kind of play. [1913 Webster]

Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth. --Dryden.
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3. To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage. [Colloq.] --Grose.
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4. To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off
epigrams. [R.] --Addison.
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To sport one s oak. See under Oak, n. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English