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運動,遊戲,娛樂,消遣,玩笑運動的,戶外穿戴的遊戲,戲弄

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sport \Sport\ (sp[=o]rt), n. [Abbreviated frm disport.]
   1. That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.

            It is as sport a fool do mischief.    --prov. x. 23.

            Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge
            upon the stream of delight.           --Sir P.
                                                  Sidney.

            Think it but a minute spent in sport. --Shak.

   2. Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.

            Then make sport at me; then let me be your
            jest.Shak.

   3. That with which one plays, or which is driven about in
      play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.

            Flitting leaves, the sport of every wind. --Dryden.

            Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than
            when he is the sport of his own ungoverned pasions.
                                                  --John Clarke.

   4. Play; idle jingle.

            An author who should introduce such a sport of words
            upon our stage would meet with small applause.
                                                  --Broome.

   5. Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing,
      racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.

   6. (Bot. & Zo["o]l.) 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. [Slang]

   {In sport}, in jest; for play or diversion. ``So is the man
      that deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in
      sport?'' --Prov. xxvi. 19.

   Syn: Play; game; diversion; frolic; mirth; mock; mockery;
        jeer.

Sport \Sport\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sported}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Sporting}.]
   1. To play; to frolic; to wanton.

            [Fish], sporting with quick glance, Show to the sun
            their waved coats dropt with gold.    --Milton.

   2. To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be
      given to betting, as upon races.

   3. To trifle. ``He sports with his own life.'' --Tillotson.

   4. (Bot. & Zo["o]l.) 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. --Darwin.

   Syn: To play; frolic; game; wanton.

Sport \Sport\, v. t.
   1. To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the
      reciprocal pronoun.

            Against whom do ye sport yourselves?  --Isa. lvii.
                                                  4.

   2. To represent by any knd of play.

            Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth.
                                                  --Dryden.

   3. To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as,
      to sport a new equipage. [Colloq.] --Grose.

   4. To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in
      an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off
      epigrams. --Addison.

   {To sport one's oak}. See under {Oak}, n.

資料來源 : WordNet®

sport
     n 1: an active diversion requiring physical exertion and
          competition [syn: {athletics}]
     2: the occupation of athletes who compete for pay
     3: someone who engages in sports [syn: {sportsman}, {sportswoman}]
     4: (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting
        from chromosomal alteration [syn: {mutant}, {mutation}, {variation}]
     5: (Maine colloquial) temporary summer resident of inland Maine
     6: verbal wit (often at another's expense but not to be taken
        seriously); "he became a figure of fun" [syn: {fun}, {play}]

sport
     v 1: wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she was
          sporting a new hat" [syn: {feature}, {boast}]
     2: play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden";
        "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped
        in the playroom" [syn: {frolic}, {lark}, {rollick}, {skylark},
         {disport}, {cavort}, {gambol}, {frisk}, {romp}, {run
        around}, {lark about}]