sport

sport (nominative singular)
sporty (nominative plural)
sportu (genitive singular)
sportů (genitive plural)
sportu (dative singular)
sportům (dative plural)
sport (accusative singular)
sporty (accusative plural)
sporte (singular vocative)
sporty (plural vocative)
sportu (locative singular)
sportech (locative plural)
sportem (instrumental singular)
sporty (instrumental plural)


sport

Mijn buurman is dol op sport.

Darts is de gezondste sport op aarde.

Darts is the most healthy sport on Earth.

(countable) a sport; (uncountable) sports

nl-noun

sport f (plural sporten, diminutive sportje n)

sporten (plural)
sportje (diminutive neuter)

→ Caribbean Javanese: sport

→ Papiamentu: spòrt

→ West Frisian: sport

Borrowed from English sport, from Middle English sport, from Middle English sport, from older disport, from Old French desport. First attested in the 19th century.


sport

→ Papiamentu: spor, sport

From Middle Dutch sporte, metathesised form of sprote.


sport

first/second/third-person singular present indicative

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


sport

(countable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.

Jen may have won, but she was sure a poor sport; she laughed at the loser.

The loser was a good sport, and congratulated Jen on her performance.

(countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.

You're such a sport! You never get upset when we tease you.

(countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.

Think it but a minute spent in sport.

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight.

c. 1580 (date written), Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “[The Thirde Booke] Chapter 21”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC, folio 283, recto:

The little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon.

a. 1765, year of origin unknown, Hey Diddle Diddle (traditional rhyme)

(archaic) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.

Why then make ſport at me, then let me be your ieſt

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 58, column 2:

(archaic) Mockery, making fun; derision.

flitting leaves, the sport of every wind

1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions.

a. 1676, John Clarke, On Governing the Temper:

(countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.

(uncountable) Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, or fishing.

We never shot another like it, so I do not know if it was a `sport' or a distinct species.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

At Hortus Bulborum you will find heirloom narcissi that date back at least to the 15th century and famous old tulips like 'Duc van Tol' (1595) and its sports.

2014 September 26, Charles Quest-Ritson, “The Dutch garden where tulip bulbs live forever: Hortus Bulborum, a volunteer-run Dutch garden, is dedicated to conserving historic varieties before they vanish for good [print version: Inspired by a living bulb archive, 27 September 2014, p. G5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening):

(biology, botany, zoology, countable) 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. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.

(slang, countable) A sportsman; a gambler.

(slang, countable) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.

(obsolete, uncountable) An amorous dalliance.

"Say, sport!" he would say briskly.

1924 July, Ellis Butler, “The Little Tin Godlets”, in The Rotarian, volume 25, number 1, Rotary International, page 14:

(informal, usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)

Hey, sport! You've gotten so big since I saw you last! Give me five.

Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy.

1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey
An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage […] would meet with small applause.

en-noun

sport (countable and uncountable, plural sports)

→ Belarusian: спорт (sport)

→ Bulgarian: спорт (sport)

→ Catalan: esport

→ Cebuano: esport

→ Czech: sport

→ Danish: sport

→ Dutch: sport (see there for further descendants)

→ French: sport (see there for further descendants)

→ Georgian: სპორტი (sṗorṭi)

→ German: Sport (see there for further descendants)

→ Hebrew: ספורט

→ Hungarian: sport

→ Irish: spórt, spóirt (Cois Fharraige)

→ Italian: sport

→ Latvian: sports

→ Lithuanian: sportas

→ Lower Sorbian: sport

→ Macedonian: спорт (sport)

→ Norman: sport

→ Northern Kurdish: spor

→ Norwegian: sport

→ Polish: sport

→ Brazilian Portuguese: esporte

→ Russian: спорт (sport) (see there for further descendants)

→ Scottish Gaelic: spòrs

→ Serbo-Croatian: sport / спорт

→ Swahili: spoti

→ Swedish: sport

→ Thai: สปอร์ต (sà-bpɔ̀ɔt)

→ Uzbek: sport

Japanese: スポーツ (supōtsu)

Korean: 스포츠 (seupocheu)

sport

any athletic activity that uses physical skills

خلوق

somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirable manner

pelaaminen

gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

From Middle English sporten (verb) and sport, spoort, sporte (noun), apheretic shortenings of disporten (verb) and disport, disporte (noun). More at disport.


sport

children sporting on the green

(intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.

Jen sports with Bill's emotions.

He sports with his own life.

1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious:

(intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.

Jen's sporting a new pair of shoes; he was sporting a new wound from the combat

But despite its plague of tunnels, the run-in on this route is of unusual interest to the locomotive enthusiast: besides the hordes of self-important saddle-tanks shunting in the extensive yards, there was at one time the chance of seeing those slender little North London engines, with their large outside cylinders and no visible storage place for coal, and also an occasional South Eastern locomotive sporting a lot of polished brass.

1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704:

[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].

2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

He was especially happy to see one of the most important discoveries make it to the screen: dinosaurs that sported feathers. But judging from the emails he has been receiving, some moviegoers did not share his excitement.

2023 June 3, Carl Zimmer, “How Did Birds First Take Off?”, in The New York Times:

(transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.

Against whom do ye sport yourselves?

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 57:4:

(reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.

Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth.

1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Sixth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:

(transitive) To represent by any kind of play.

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

more than one kind of rose has sported into a moss

1860, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication:

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.

There he locked it up in a drawer, sported the doors of both sets of rooms, and retired to bed.

(transitive, archaic) To close (a door).

en-verb

sport (third-person singular simple present sports, present participle sporting, simple past and past participle sported)

sports (present singular third-person)
sporting (participle present)
sported (participle past)
sported (past)


sport

head

sport (genitive spordi, partitive sporti)

spordi (genitive)
sporti (partitive)
sport (nominative singular)
spordid (nominative plural)
sport (accusative nominative singular)
spordid (accusative nominative plural)
spordi (accusative genitive singular)
spordid (accusative genitive plural)
spordi (genitive singular)
sportide (genitive plural)
sporti (partitive singular)
sporte (partitive plural)
sportisid (partitive plural)
sporti (illative singular)
spordisse (illative singular)
sportidesse (illative plural)
spordesse (illative plural)
spordis (inessive singular)
sportides (inessive plural)
spordes (inessive plural)
spordist (elative singular)
sportidest (elative plural)
spordest (elative plural)
spordile (allative singular)
sportidele (allative plural)
spordele (allative plural)
spordil (adessive singular)
sportidel (adessive plural)
spordel (adessive plural)
spordilt (ablative singular)
sportidelt (ablative plural)
spordelt (ablative plural)
spordiks (singular translative)
sportideks (plural translative)
spordeks (plural translative)
spordini (singular terminative)
sportideni (plural terminative)
spordina (essive singular)
sportidena (essive plural)
spordita (abessive singular)
sportideta (abessive plural)
spordiga (comitative singular)
sportidega (comitative plural)


sport

Haitian Creole: espò

→ Greek: σπορ (spor)

→ Romanian: sport

→ Turkish: spor

→ Walloon: spôrt


sport

sportok (plural)
sport (nominative singular)
sportok (nominative plural)
sportot (accusative singular)
sportokat (accusative plural)
sportnak (dative singular)
sportoknak (dative plural)
sporttal (instrumental singular)
sportokkal (instrumental plural)
sportért (causal-final singular)
sportokért (causal-final plural)
sporttá (singular translative)
sportokká (plural translative)
sportig (singular terminative)
sportokig (plural terminative)
sportként (essive-formal singular)
sportokként (essive-formal plural)
sportban (inessive singular)
sportokban (inessive plural)
sporton (singular superessive)
sportokon (plural superessive)
sportnál (adessive singular)
sportoknál (adessive plural)
sportba (illative singular)
sportokba (illative plural)
sportra (singular sublative)
sportokra (plural sublative)
sporthoz (allative singular)
sportokhoz (allative plural)
sportból (elative singular)
sportokból (elative plural)
sportról (delative singular)
sportokról (delative plural)
sporttól (ablative singular)
sportoktól (ablative plural)
sporté (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
sportoké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
sportéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
sportokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
sportom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
sportjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
sportod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
sportjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
sportja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
sportjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
sportunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
sportjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
sportotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
sportjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
sportjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
sportjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


sport

sport (activity that uses physical skills, often competitive)

fare qualcosa per sport

Unadapted borrowing from English sport. Doublet of diporto.


sport

sport (athletic activity that uses physical skills)

sport (nominative singular)
sporta (dual nominative)
sporty (nominative plural)
sporta (genitive singular)
sportowu (dual genitive)
sportow (genitive plural)
sportoju (dative singular)
sportoma (dative dual)
sportam (dative plural)
sport (accusative singular)
sporta (accusative dual)
sporty (accusative plural)
sportom (instrumental singular)
sportoma (dual instrumental)
sportami (instrumental plural)
sporśe (locative singular)
sportoma (dual locative)
sportach (locative plural)


sport

(Jersey) sport (physical activity pitting two or more opponents against each other)


sport

sport (nominative singular)
sporty (nominative plural)
sportu (genitive singular)
sportów (genitive plural)
sportowi (dative singular)
sportom (dative plural)
sport (accusative singular)
sporty (accusative plural)
sportem (instrumental singular)
sportami (instrumental plural)
sporcie (locative singular)
sportach (locative plural)
sporcie (singular vocative)
sporty (plural vocative)


sport

sporturi (plural)
sport (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
sportul (accusative definite nominative singular)
sporturi (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
sporturile (accusative definite nominative plural)
sport (indefinite singular)
sportului (definite singular)
sporturi (indefinite plural)
sporturilor (definite plural)
sportule (singular vocative)
sporturilor (plural vocative)


sport

spȍrt (canonical masculine)
спо̏рт (Cyrillic)
spȍrt (nominative singular)
spòrtovi (nominative plural)
sporta (genitive singular)
sportova (genitive plural)
sportu (dative singular)
sportovima (dative plural)
sport (accusative singular)
sportove (accusative plural)
sporte (singular vocative)
sportovi (plural vocative)
sportu (locative singular)
sportovima (locative plural)
sportom (instrumental singular)
sportovima (instrumental plural)


sport

sport (indefinite nominative singular)
sports (genitive indefinite singular)
sporten (definite nominative singular)
sportens (definite genitive singular)
sporter (indefinite nominative plural)
sporters (genitive indefinite plural)
sporterna (definite nominative plural)
sporternas (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed from English sport, first used in 1857.


sport

Borrowed from Dutch sport, from English sport.