How to pronounce “sport”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (countable, uncountable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
• (countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
• (countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
• (archaic) Something fun, pastime; amusement.
• (archaic) Mockery, making fun; derision.
• (countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
• (uncountable) Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, or fishing.
• (biology, botany, zoology, countable) 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. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.
• (slang, countable) A sportsman; a gambler.
• (slang, countable) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
• (obsolete, uncountable) An amorous dalliance.
• (informal, usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
• Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy.
• (archaic) Play; idle jingle.
• [Verb]
• (intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.
• (intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
• (transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.
• (reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
• (transitive) To represent by any kind of play.
• To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
• 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.
• (transitive, archaic) To close (a door).

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