Crossword-Solution: SPORT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sport | n. | That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement. |
| Sport | n. | Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision. |
| Sport | n. | That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery. |
| Sport | n. | Play; idle jingle. |
| Sport | n. | Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked. |
| Sport | n. | 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. |
| Sport | n. | A sportsman; a gambler. |
| Sport | v. i. | To play; to frolic; to wanton. |
| Sport | v. i. | To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races. |
| Sport | v. i. | To trifle. |
| Sport | v. i. | 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. |
| Sport | v. t. | To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun. |
| Sport | v. t. | To represent by any knd of play. |
| Sport | v. t. | To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage. |
| Sport | v. t. | To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off epigrams. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPORT | anagram | PORTS, PROST, PROTS, STROP, TORPS |
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Sentences with SPORT (5)
They killed several of them, when one of the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: “Pray stop, my boys: what is sport to you, is death to us.” The Sick Stag A SICK STAG lay down in a quiet corner of its pasture-ground.
Why should a mortal man, the sport of chance, With no assured foreknowledge, be afraid? Best live a careless life from hand to mouth.
The next moment he was as ready for sport as any unbreeched infant: far readier than the Collector’s junior clerk, who at nineteen years was much the elder and graver man of the two.
And withal I was absolutely afraid to go! As I hesitated, two of the beautiful upperworld people came running in their amorous sport across the daylight in the shadow.
She ridiculed, in the raciest slang, the singers they had heard at the opera the night before, and when her aunt pretended to reprove her, she murmured indifferently, “What’s the matter with you, old sport?” She rattled on with a subdued loquaciousness, always keeping her voice low and monotonous, always looking out of the corner of her eye and speaking, as it were, in asides, out of the corner of her mouth.
Quotes with SPORT (3)
It isn't creativity that fades, but stamina: science is an endurance sport
George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.
And it was only then that I realized what I had let myself in for, and only then I realized how bloody thick I had been not to have predicted it. It would seem that the combination of elements--woman, desert, camels, aloneness--hit some soft sport in this era's passionless, heartless, aching psyche. It fired the imaginations of people who seem themselves as alienated, powerless, unable to do anything about a world gone mad. And wouldn't it be my luck to pick just this combina…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 327 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).