"sport" Definition

Definitions for the word "sport" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
1 a game or competitive activity, usu. Played outdoors and involving physical exertion, e.g. Cricket, football, racing. B these collectively. 2 (in pl.) Meeting for competing in sports, esp. Athletics. 3 amusement, fun. 4 colloq. A fair, generous, or sporting person. B person with a specified attitude to games, rules, etc. 5 animal or plant deviating from the normal type. v. 1 amuse oneself, play about. 2 wear or exhibit, esp. Ostentatiously. in sport jestingly. Make sport of ridicule. [from *disport]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
2. slang
to exhibit, to wear, &c.,—a word which is made to do duty in a variety of senses, especially at the Universities.—_See_ the _Gradus ad Cantabrigiam_. “To SPORT a new tile;” “to SPORT an _Ægrotat_” (_i.e._, a permission from the Dons to abstain from lectures, &c., on account of illness); “to SPORT one’s oak,” to shut the outer door and exclude the public,—especially duns and boring acquaintances. Common also in the Inns of Court. _See Notes and Queries_, 2nd series, vol. viii. p. 492, and _Gentleman’s Magazine_, December, 1794.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
3. slang
an American term for a gambler or turfite—more akin to our sporting man than to our sportsman.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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