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sport
(spôrt)
n.
1.

a. An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.

b. often sports(used with a sing. verb) Such activities considered as a group: Sports is a good way for children to get exercise.

2.

a. A usually challenging activity undertaken for amusement: "the sport of trying to eat [a bratwurst] with anything fewer than four paper napkins" (Jane Kramer).

b. Fun; amusement: balanced on the curb just for the sport of it.

3.

a. Mockery; jest: He made sport of his own looks.

b. An object of mockery, jest, or play: treated our interests as sport.

c. A joking mood or attitude: She made the remark in sport.

4.

a. One known for the manner of one's acceptance of rules, especially of a game, or of a difficult situation: a poor sport.

b. Informal A fair-minded person, especially one who accepts teasing or difficult situations well: Be a sport and show me where you caught those fish.

c. Informal A pleasant companion: was a real sport during the trip.

5. Informal

a. A person who lives a jolly, extravagant life.

b. A gambler at sporting events.

6. Biology An organism or a part of an organism that shows a marked change from the parent type, typically as a result of mutation.

7. Obsolete Amorous dalliance; lovemaking.

v. sport·ed, sport·ing, sports

v. intr.

1. To play or frolic: children sporting in the waves.

2. To joke or trifle: "Lear ... in a storm, half mad, sported with by the gods" (Cynthia Ozick).

v. tr.

1. To wear or have on one's body, especially prominently or ostentatiously: sports diamond earrings; sports a tattoo.

2. To have as a prominent feature: a car sporting a new paint job.

adj. or sports

1. Of, relating to, or appropriate for sports: sport fishing; sports equipment.

2. Designed or appropriate for outdoor or informal wear: a sport shirt.

[Middle English sporte, short for disporte, from Old French desport, pleasure, from desporter, to divert; see disport.]

sport
(spɔːt)
n

1. (General Sporting Terms) an individual or group activity pursued for exercise or pleasure, often involving the testing of physical capabilities and taking the form of a competitive game such as football, tennis, etc

2. (General Sporting Terms) such activities considered collectively

3. (General Sporting Terms) any particular pastime indulged in for pleasure

4. (General Sporting Terms) the pleasure derived from a pastime, esp hunting, shooting, or fishing: we had good sport today.

5. playful or good-humoured joking: to say a thing in sport.

6. derisive mockery or the object of such mockery: to make sport of someone.

7. someone or something that is controlled by external influences: the sport of fate.

8. informal (sometimes qualified by: good, bad, etc ) a person who reacts cheerfully in the face of adversity, esp a good loser

9. informal a person noted for being scrupulously fair and abiding by the rules of a game

10. informal a person who leads a merry existence, esp a gambler: he's a bit of a sport.

11. informal Austral and NZ a form of address used esp between males

12. (Biology) biology

a. an animal or plant that differs conspicuously in one or more aspects from other organisms of the same species, usually because of a mutation

b. an anomalous characteristic of such an organism

vb

13. (Clothing & Fashion) ( tr) informal to wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner: she was sporting a new hat.

14. ( intr) to skip about or frolic happily

15. (General Sporting Terms) to amuse (oneself), esp in outdoor physical recreation

16. (often foll by: with) to dally or trifle (with)

17. rare (often foll by: away) to squander (time or money): sporting one's life away.

18. archaic (often foll by: with) to make fun (of)

19. (Biology) ( intr) biology to produce or undergo a mutation

[C15 sporten, variant of disporten to disport]

sport
(spɔrt, spoʊrt)

n.

1. an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature.

2. such activities collectively.

3. diversion; recreation.

5. mockery; ridicule: They made sport of his haircut.

7. something tossed about like a plaything.

9. a person who behaves in a sportsmanlike, fair, or admirable manner.

10. a debonair person; bon vivant.

11. Biol. an organism or part that shows an unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; mutation.

12. Obs. amorous dalliance.

adj.

13. of, pertaining to, or used in sports.

14. suitable for outdoor or informal wear: sport clothes.

v.i.

15. to amuse oneself with some pleasant pastime.

16. to frolic; gambol: kittens sporting and playing.

17. to engage in athletic activity.

18. to speak or act in jest.

v.t.

21. to wear or display, esp. with ostentation: sporting a new coat.

Also, sports .

[1350-1400; Middle English; aph. variant of disport]

sport

Past participle: sported
Gerund: sporting

sport

A spontaneous mutation, or genetic change, where a plant is distinctly different from its parent (e.g. has variegated foliage).

Thesaurus Antonyms Related Words Synonyms Legend:

Noun 1.
sport - an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition

offside - (sport) the mistake of occupying an illegal position on the playing field (in football, soccer, ice hockey, field hockey, etc.)

wipeout - a spill in some sport (as a fall from a bicycle or while skiing or being capsized on a surfboard)

toss, flip, pass - (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team; "the pass was fumbled"

daisy cutter - a batted or served ball that skims along close to the ground

call - (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee; "he was ejected for protesting the call"

rock climbing - the sport or pastime of scaling rock masses on mountain sides (especially with the help of ropes and special equipment)

diversion, recreation - an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates; "scuba diving is provided as a diversion for tourists"; "for recreation he wrote poetry and solved crossword puzzles"; "drug abuse is often regarded as a form of recreation"

contact sport - a sport that necessarily involves body contact between opposing players

track and field - participating in athletic sports performed on a running track or on the field associated with it

skiing - a sport in which participants must travel on skis

archery - the sport of shooting arrows with a bow

sledding - the sport of riding on a sled or sleigh

skating - the sport of gliding on skates

racing - the sport of engaging in contests of speed

cycling - the sport of traveling on a bicycle or motorcycle

blood sport - sport that involves killing animals (especially hunting)

stroke, shot - (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand; "it took two strokes to get out of the bunker"; "a good shot requires good balance and tempo"; "he left me an almost impossible shot"

position - (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player; "what position does he play?"

foul - an act that violates the rules of a sport

personal foul - a foul that involves unnecessarily rough contact (as in basketball or football)

possession - (sport) the act of controlling the ball (or puck); "they took possession of the ball on their own goal line"

judo - a sport adapted from jujitsu (using principles of not resisting) and similar to wrestling; developed in Japan

team sport - a sport that involves competition between teams of players; "baseball is a team sport by golf is not"

save - (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring; "the goalie made a brilliant save"; "the relief pitcher got credit for a save"

press box - box reserved for reporters (as at a sports event)

tuck - (sports) a bodily position adopted in some sports (such as diving or skiing) in which the knees are bent and the thighs are drawn close to the chest

game plan - (sports) a plan for achieving an objective in some sport

English, side - (sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist

series - (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams; "the visiting team swept the series"

trial - (sports) a preliminary competition to determine qualifications; "the trials for the semifinals began yesterday"

defending team, defence, defense - (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring; "his teams are always good on defense"

free agent - (sports) a professional athlete who is free to sign a contract to play for any team

ref, referee - (sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play

talent scout, scout - someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports)

2.
sport - the occupation of athletes who compete for pay

sumo - a Japanese form of wrestling; you lose if you are forced out of a small ring or if any part of your body (other than your feet) touches the ground

3.
sport - (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine

vacationer, vacationist - someone on vacation; someone who is devoting time to pleasure or relaxation rather than to work

4.
sport - 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"

5.
sport - someone who engages in sports

6.
sport - (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration

organism, being - a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently

7.
sport - 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"

Verb 1.
sport - wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she was sporting a new hat"

feature, have - have as a feature; "This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France"

2.
sport - play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the playroom"

frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, cavort, disport

play - be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children; "The kids were playing outside all day"; "I used to play with trucks as a little girl"

sport

noun

2. fun, kidding (informal), joking, teasing, ridicule, joshing (slang, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), banter, frolic, jest, mirth, merriment, badinage, raillery Had themselves a bit of sport first, didn't they?

verb

1. (Informal) wear, display, flaunt, boast, exhibit, flourish, show off, vaunt He was fat-faced, heavily-built and sported a red moustache. see athletic events, ballgames, boxing weights, cricket terms, equestrianism, fencing terms, football, golf terms, gymnastic events, martial arts, motor sports, rugby terms, snooker and billiards terms, tennis terms, water sports, winter sports

Quotations
"I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organize play, the spirit of play" [Simon Gray]
"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity" [George Bernard Shaw Maxims for Revolutionists]
"The flannelled fools at the wicket or the muddied oafs at the goals" [Rudyard Kipling The Islanders]
"To be No. 1 in sport you have to have a narrow tunnel vision. Dedication. You want to call it selfishness, arrogance, whatever. It's dog eat dog. There are no prisoners taken; there's none expected" [Ian Botham]

Sports

Team sports American football, association football or soccer, Australian Rules or Australian Rules football, baseball, bandy, basketball, camogie, Canadian football, cricket, curling, five-a-side football, football, Gaelic football, goalball, handball, hockey, hurling or hurley, ice hockey, kabbadi, korfball, lacrosse, netball, polo, roller hockey, rounders, rugby or rugby football, rugby league, rugby union, shinty, softball, stool ball, tug-of-war, volleyball, water polo

Combat sports boxing, fencing, sambo or sambo wrestling, savate, wrestling

Other sports angling or fishing, archery, badminton, ballooning, billiards, boules, bowls, bullfighting, candlepins, clay pigeon shooting, cockfighting, coursing, croquet, cycling, cyclo-cross, darts, decathlon, falconry, fives, fly-fishing, fox-hunting, gliding, golf, greyhound racing, gymnastics, hang gliding, jai alai, lawn tennis, modern pentathlon, mountaineering, paddleball, parachuting, paragliding, parascending, paraskiing, pelota, pétanque, pigeon racing, pool, potholing, quoits, rackets, real tennis, rhythmic gymnastics, rock climbing, roller skating, shooting, skeet, skittles, skydiving, snooker, squash or squash rackets, table tennis, tennis, tenpin bowling, trampolining, trapshooting, triathlon, weightlifting

sport
noun

1. Activity engaged in for relaxation and amusement:

2. Actions taken as a joke:

verb

1. To occupy oneself with amusement or diversion:

2. To make a public and usually ostentatious show of:

ألعاب رياضِيَّه ذو روح رِياضِيَّه رِيَاضَة رِياضَه لَهْو، مُزاح، لَعِب

sport sportág feltûnõen visel

sport

[ˈspɔː r t]

du (monde du) du sports modif [ activities, event, team] → sportif/ive; [ centre, club, complex, facilities] → sportif/ive; [ field] → channel, coverage, programme, news] → de sport; [sportif/ive; [ commentator, presenter, correspondent, journalist] → sportif/ive; [ personality, star] → psychologist, science] → bra, clothes] → sport; [ gear, kit] → sport; [sportif/ive
sports equipment → de sport; [
sports fan →

sport

n

(= games collectively) → to be good at tennis is my the der to offer good outdoor indoor Sport m no pl; (= type of sport) → f; Sportart sport(s) → ; sport → Tennis ist mein Lieblingssport; sport of kings → königliche Sport, der Pferderennsport; sport → gute Jagd-/Angelmöglichkeiten pl → bieten; sports → Sport m → im Freien; sports → Hallensport m

(= amusement) → to do something in it was great to say something in to make Spaß m; sport → etw zum sport → ; sport → etw aus sport of somebody/something or im or zum Spaß sagen; Spaß tun; (old) →

vt tie, dress → anhaben; (= show off) ring etc → protzen mit; black eye, pink etc hair, beard → herumlaufen mit (inf)

sport
(spoːt) noun

1. games or competitions involving physical activity. She's very keen on sport of all kinds.

2. a particular game or amusement of this kind. Hunting, shooting and fishing are not sports I enjoy.

3. a good-natured and obliging person. He's a good sport to agree to do that for us!

4. fun; amusement. I only did it for sport.

verb

to wear, especially in public. He was sporting a pink tie.

ˈsporting adjective

1. of, or concerned with, sports. the sporting world.

2. ( negative unsporting) showing fairness and kindness or generosity, especially if unexpected. a sporting gesture.

sports adjective

( American also sport) designed, or suitable, for sport. a sports centre; sports equipment.

sports car

a small, fast car with only two seats.

sports jacket

a type of jacket for men, designed for casual wear.

ˈsportsman (ˈspoːts-) - feminine ˈsportswoman - noun

1. a person who takes part in sports. He is a very keen sportsman.

2. a person who shows a spirit of fairness and generosity in sport. He's a real sportsman who doesn't seem to care if he wins or loses.

ˈsportswear noun

clothing designed for playing sports in.

a sporting chance

a reasonably good chance.

sport
→ رِيَاضَة sport sport Sport άθλημα urheilu deporte sport sport スポーツ 스포츠 sport sport sport กีฬา idrett sport môn thể thao desporto, esporte спорт spor 体育

sport

n. deporte;

___ -s medicine → medicina del deporte.

sport

n deporte m; contact - deporte de contacto; to play sports practicar or realizar deporte(s)

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I picked up this book because I thought it would tell me something I wanted to hear: that sport is a Bad Thing. The reason why I wanted to believe this is that soccer in particular has always annoyed me: the obsession of fans with their teams and the tolerance of society for that obsession, the huge money exchanged between hands for a skill that is just kicking a ball around a grassy pitch, the hyperbole surrounding the 'tragedy' of the matches lost and the 'miracles' of matches won, the ugly, shiny, coloured jerseys men (and sometimes women) wear even when doing things not the remotest bit sporty, the violence, the image of women as decorative trophies whose sole function is to spend the footballers' money as fast as they can earn it, the alcohol abuse, the ubiquity of merchandising from keyrings to pencil-cases to quilt-covers to mugs, the amount of news time, media coverage and brain space given over to something that is essentially trivial... OK, I think you get my point.

But Joe Humphreys' book didn't quite succeed in doing this - the opposite, in fact. Its thought-provoking arguments crystalised my opinion that sport, when stripped of its non-essential trappings back to its core, can be a Good Thing. It is, at its best, a fun part of life that reminds us of what it is to be alive, provides us with heroes, laughter, and exhilaration and offers an easy way to connect with other people in a world increasingly insular. However in his book Joe Humphreys set out to ' show how sport is bad for your health and damaging to your character, as well as being the last refuge of sexism, racism, homophobia and animal cruelty'.

Joe Humphreys is not a sport-hater, on the contrary, he is ' a lifelong sports fan and a player of sports' as well as being an avid West Ham United supporter. 'This book is therefore part- confessional. It's an attempt to make sense of something that has been dear to me - often against logic - for as long as I can remember.'

Humphreys makes the comparison between sport and religion (the tagline on the back 'tackling the Sports Delusion' is obviously a wink at Richard Dawkins' book) and the starting point for the book is the examination of the initial cracks in his own faith. (' If the latest Fifa figures can be believed, football now has more followers than either Christianity or Islam. ')Looking deeper into the heart of sport and seeking support from disciplines who have sought to understand man's relationship with it, has resulted in this rambling, entertaining, occasionally funny, often incisive dissection of sport.

He tackles and dismisses several myths about sport such as the common assertion that sportiness has a beneficial impact on moral fibre, both at individual and national level or the contention that sport has special powers to encourage the spread of peace and love throughout the world and this kind of critical scrutiny of accepted 'truths' has to be good.

There is an attempt to structure the argument into chapters but in fact many of the points bleed into each other and the overall effect is one of an extended personal essay. This said, Foul Play is an enjoyable, easy read and Joe Humphreys has wisely kept the footnotes and references out of the main text and included them in notes at the end. The case against sport is certainly thought-provoking and interesting and there are many pertinent points that strike home such as:

(in society) '...few people today believe that you can tackle drugs by law enforcement measures alone...But in the world of sport, the focus remains almost entirely on supply. Wada's 75-page anti-doping code, designed as an action plan for all sporting bodies, speaks of nothing else but enforcement. Education and other such measure that could help to reduce demand are addressed in less than two pages of the report, and with a minimum of detail. And the question of why athletes turn to drugs in the first place is not mentioned at all.'
'Long after most of the world's governments had moved to ostracise the apartheid regime, rugby unions in the British Isles and elsewhere continued to send touring parties to the pariah state. In 1977, Commonwealth governments signed the Gleneagles agreement, calling for an end to all sporting contacts with South Africa . But this was largely ignored by key figures in sport. In as late as 1985, the All Blacks tried to put together a tour to the apartheid state and were stopped by the New Zealand High Court.'
Nevertheless, I couldn't help getting the impression that sometimes the author overstates his case, using flimsy examples and rhetoric at times, either to make a more controversial case or to add to the entertainment value of his book or both.

Joe Humphreys is at his best when he analyses specific outstanding examples of sport's brilliance or notoriety such as his assessment of the 1936 Munich Olympics and Jesse Owen's participation or the Ben Johnson's debacle but where his logic fails to convince me is in his condemnation of sport as it is played by the majority of ordinary people.

And this is where my opinion verges away from Humphreys. I agree that the globalisation of sport brings out the worst in sport and the worst in people but, having considered his argument, I have come to think that the problem arises in the globalisation and commercialisation rather than with sport itself. Just as in business and art, globalisation has pushed out the best, the innovative, the local and replaced it with power, money and merchandising.

In his conclusion Joe Humphreys states, 'I venture that sport starts to go wrong as soon as it is taken too seriously; and that can happen in a school playground as easily as in an Olympic stadium. It can happen in the mind of an athlete who values winning above all else, or in the heart of a spectator who becomes a manic obsessive.' I can see his point but I think that the involvement of large amounts of money is often a main contributor to the tendency to take sport too seriously. As for the ones who get carried away in the absence of money, well I'm not sure much can be done to maintain their sense of proportion in any case.

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Foul Play : What's Wrong with Sport by Joe Humphreys

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a. An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
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