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sport English

Meaning sport meaning

What does sport mean?
Definitions in simple English

sport Noun

— Sport is physical exercise which involves players playing in a team. What sport shall we play? In sports news, England lost to Spain 3 to 2. — A sport is a helpful person. Be a good sport and open the door for me. — Sport is fun or entertainment. It was good sport to surprise him like that. s have been killing sharks for sport.

sport Verb

— To sport something is to wear it.

sport

— noun an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition — noun the occupation of athletes who compete for pay — verb wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner she was sporting a new hat — noun someone who engages in sports — noun 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 — noun (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine — noun (= fun) 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 — noun (= mutant) (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration — verb (= frolic, gambol, romp) play boisterously The children frolicked in the garden the gamboling lambs in the meadows The toddlers romped in the playroom

Synonyms sport synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as sport?

sport English » English

play game pastime frolic amusement fun recreation pleasure diversion joke athletics sports entertainment lark jest dally sportsman gambol variation skylark romp rollick mirth hobby games frisk exercise disport contest wear trifle toy summercater sportswoman show off run around revel recreate pleasantry mutation mutant merriment lark about lad jape gamble flutter flaunt fellow feature

Topics sport topics

What do people use sport to talk about?
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation

Sports
Social behavior Social activity

Humor

Conjugation sport conjugation

How do you conjugate sport?

sport · verb

Examples sport examples

How do I use sport in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Rugby is a sport which is never called off by rain.
Boxing is not always a rough sport.
What kind of sport do you like?
Tennis is my favorite sport.
This sport got more and more popular.
I like sport.
Skiing is my favorite sport.
In my opinion, soccer is a great sport.
Soccer is an exciting sport.
Sport is good for your health.
My favorite sport is soccer.
My favorite sport is skiing.
When spring arrives, I am going to take up a new sport.
The doctor advised me to take up some sport to stay in shape.
What sport do you like best?
I have no leisure for sport.
The paradox of sport is that it bonds as it divides.
In sport, team harmony is vital to success.
It was the most popular sport in this country.
What is the most popular sport in America?

Movie subtitles

That's my favorite sport. I'm a spotter.
I'm happy here. Be a sport.
Oh, be a sport.
The man, killing just for sport, is called civilized.
Now, just a minute. What makes you think. it isn't just as much sport for the animal as it is for the man?
I asked you if there'd be as much sport in the game. if you were the tiger instead of the hunter.
We'll have capital sport together, I hope.
No sport at all.
He was sober and fit for sport when I sent him out.
When the next ship arrives, we'll have gorgeous sport together.
For the sport?
Sporty, if you want to sport.
Be a sport, leave a pal talk to him, will you?
So long, old sport.
A fine tinhorn sport you are.
Please, come on, be a sport.
What makes you think. it isn't just as much sport for the animal as it is for the man?
Sometimes that profession becomes the sport of titles.
Ancient sport of kings, falconry.
But my favorite sport is fishing.
What a sport.
These are the official WOC sport shoes and the headquarters entrance certification.
That's my favorite sport.
Be a sport.
Well, we're not taking any two-bit bets tonight, Sport.
Hey, boss, what do you got against this Sport?
They usually like a little sport.
No, no, no. No sport at all.
Lead the pony around the corner. - So long, old sport.

News and current affairs

In Berlin, as in other large German cities, taxis sport the flags of their drivers' home countries - from Angola to Saudi Arabia.
This World Cup demonstrates three main developments that the sport has undergone.
The sport and its fans will certainly profit if it does.
The story's premise is that the world will run out of oil faster than we thought, as these billions of people chase their dreams of big houses and sport utility vehicles.
You may not care a whit about chess, long regarded as the ultimate intellectual sport.
Indeed, in the new global balance, where football has become much more than sport, Europe is back with a vengeance.
From ping-pong diplomacy with China to the united German Olympic team that competed in 1990 before actual reunification, sport has prefigured political developments, and politicians everywhere have seized on the importance of the World Cup.
But sport can also become a kind of gigantic, distracting screen behind which nasty regimes do outrageous things - the very opposite of the Olympic and World Cup spirit.
The story of an erratic kid from Brooklyn taking on the Soviet empire in its national sport made good copy for journalists, who understood the significance of the event.
But Fischer recognized that US culture marginalizes any pursuit that does not produce big money, so he viewed the six-figure cash prize as the ultimate symbol of advancement in his sport.
In many ways, chess was Russia's national sport.
Everyone can bet on a run on the Argentine peso - a favorite sport of international financial speculators for a century and a half. But not the dollar.
It might seem that all of this could be shrugged off as a harmless media spectator sport.
Because most people don't particularly want to belong to a party, playing the party game becomes a minority sport.
For starters, both the US team and the US audience for soccer derive their growing strength from immigrants - many from countries where the sport is a national passion.
US tennis fans watch tennis wherever it is played all over the world, and the US audience for golf does not plummet when a tournament is played in the sport's birthplace, Scotland.
Everyone can bet on a run on the Argentine peso - a favorite sport of international financial speculators for a century and a half.
Even in sport, East Europeans have long been integrated with the rest of Europe.
But the fact that sport can unleash primitive emotions is not a reason to condemn it.
Even though some football games have provoked violence, and in one case even a war, they might have served the positive purpose of containing our more savage impulses by deflecting them onto a mere sport.
No amount of interdiction will suffice if we do not explain clearly what, precisely, is wrong with using performance enhancing drugs in sport.
There are three compelling reasons to ban such drugs: assuring all athletes that the competition is fair; preserving the integrity of the athlete; and safeguarding what gives sport its meaning and value.
Young Olympians devote their lives to their sport for the opportunity to match themselves against the world's most gifted and dedicated athletes.
What gives sport its meaning and value?
Performance enhancing drugs cheapen sport, making winners out of also-rans, and depriving virtuous and superior athletes of the victories that should be theirs.

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