Examples from literature

• A party of boys disported themselves noisily on the range of stone posts that form a bodyguard round the ancient lamp-surmounted pump, but otherwise the place was wrapped in dignified repose suited to its age and station. 
• In the distant water a large number of animals are disporting themselves. 
• It happened that my brother and myself were disporting ourselves in certain fields near the good town of Canterbury. 
• On Sunday afternoons all the bourgeois world of our ville disports itself upon the jetty. 
• The latter took little notice, and slowly wended his way through the extensive park, in whose magnificent old trees monkeys were disporting themselves.