an activity or game requiring physical skill and having a set of rules, engaged in by individuals or teams for exercise or recreation or as a profession
such activities collectively
the activities of hunting, shooting, or fishing; the catch or kill from these
Boat anglers enjoyed good sport with cod, a few dogfish and rays — Anglers’ Mail
archaic a source of diversion or recreation; a pastime
to have his fireside enlivened by the sports and nonsense … of a child — Jane Austen
The transition to the sport of window-breaking … was easy and natural — Dickens
archaic sexual play
When the blood is made dull with the act of sport — Shakespeare
literary (+ of) something tossed about like a plaything
Men are the sport of circumstances, when the circumstances seem the sport of men — Byron
a generous-minded and sociable person who takes criticism or teasing well
a laughing stock
A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls — Jane Austen
entertainment or pleasure, esp from a sport such as hunting
archaic a source of pleasure or amusement
chiefly NAmer a playboy or gambler
Aus, NZ, informal used as a form of familiar address, chiefly to men
a biological individual, or a part of one, exhibiting a sudden deviation from type beyond the normal limits of variation, usu as a result of mutation; a freak of nature
for fun; in fun
I know there is a proverb, ‘Love me, love my dog’: but that is not always so very practicable … if the dog be set upon you to … snap at you in sport — Charles Lamb
archaic to make fun of (somebody or something)
If I suspect without cause, why then make sport at me, then let me be your jest — Shakespeare
He may, indeed, love to make sport of people by vexing their vanity — James Boswell
horse racing