sport

sport is a 5-letter English word with 24 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 24 senses

Definitions

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

    Synonyms: athletics

18. noun. 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"

    Synonyms: fun, play

19. noun. (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration

    Synonyms: mutant, mutation, variation

20. noun. someone who engages in sports

    Synonyms: sportsman, sportswoman

21. 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"

22. noun. (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine

    Synonyms: summercater

23. verb. play boisterously

    "The children frolicked in the garden"

    "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"

    Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, rollick, romp, skylark

24. verb. wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner

    "she was sporting a new hat"

    Synonyms: boast, feature

Synonyms

athletics, fun, play, mutant, mutation, variation, sportsman, sportswoman, summercater, cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, rollick, romp, skylark, boast, feature

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sport:

ports, prost, sprot, strop

Common word forms

sports, sported, sporter, sportly, sportful, sporting, sportable, sportless

Words from these letters

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