meaning of sport
1. That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
2. Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
3. That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
4. Play; idle jingle.
5. Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.
6. 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.
7. A sportsman; a gambler.
8. To play; to frolic; to wanton.
9. To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
10. To trifle.
11. 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.
12. To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun.
13. To represent by any knd of play.
14. To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage.
15. To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off epigrams.
16. an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
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