Meaning

8 senses
  1. (intransitive)To amuse oneself, to play.

    children sporting on the green

    spielen, sich vergnügen, herumtollen

    play boisterously

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

    Jen sports with Bill's emotions.

    herumspielen, Spott treiben

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

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

    tragen, präsentieren, zur Schau stellen

    демонстрироватьdemonstrirovatʹ

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

  5. (transitive)To represent by any kind of play.

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

  7. 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.

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

Examples

1333 sentences
  1. Ice hockey is an exciting sport.

    Хокей — захоплюючий вид спорту. — deniko

  2. I like music better than sports.

    Я люблю музику більше, ніж спорт. — deniko

    deIch mag Musik lieber als Sport. — Ullalia

  3. I bought a red sports car.

    Я купив червону спортивну машину. — deniko

    ruЯ купил красную спортивную машину. — Selena777

    deIch habe einen roten Sportwagen gekauft. — MUIRIEL

  4. What's your favorite sport to play?

    Яким спортом тобі найбільше подобається займатись? — zinova

  5. What's your favorite sport to watch?

    Який спорт тобі найбільше подобається дивитись? — zinova

    ruКакой вид спорта вы любите смотреть больше всего? — Wayawa

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
display, have as feature — see also wear:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
amuse oneself:
mock or tease:
display, have as feature — see also wear:

Origin

From Middle English sporten (“to divert, disport”, verb) and sport, spoort, sporte (noun),

From Middle English sporten (“to divert, disport”, verb) and sport, spoort, sporte (noun), apheretic shortenings of disporten (verb) and disport, disporte (noun), from Old French desporter (“to divert, amuse, please, play; to seek amusement”), etymologically meaning "to carry away (the mind from serious matters)," from des- + porter, from Latin dis- + Latin portāre, ultimately from Latin deportāre, from de- + portāre, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to lead, pass over”)). Replaced native English laik, lake (“sport, fun, amusement”), and Middle English spile, spyl (“fun, sport, play”). More at disport. Doublet of disport and deport.

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Forms

sports, sporting, sported, sported
Base formsport · to sport
3rd person singularsports
Present participlesporting
Past simplesported
Past participlesported

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysport
he, she, itsports

Past simpleLesson

all personssported

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave sported
he, she, ithas sported

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill sport

Synonyms

15 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • interested in sports
  • sports car
  • a sports car
  • good at sports
  • sports on tv
  • watching sports on
  • most popular sport
  • talking about sports
  • new sports car
  • my favorite sport
  • popular sport in
  • watching sports

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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