SPORT

Sport

Sport is all forms of usually competitive physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing entertainment to participants, and in some cases, spectators. Hundreds of sports exist, from those requiring only two participants, through to those with hundreds of simultaneous participants, either in teams or competing as individuals.

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Sport+

Sport+ is a French television channel on cable and satellite which is owned by Canal+ and which is devoted to live sport.

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sport

Noun

  1. Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
  2. A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
  3. Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirable manner, a good sport.
  4. That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
  5. Mockery; derision.
  6. A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
  7. Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.
  8. 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.
  9. A sportsman; a gambler.
  10. One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
  11. An amorous dalliance.
  12. A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
  13. Play; idle jingle.

Verb

  1. To amuse oneself, to play.
  2. To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
  3. To display; to have as a notable feature.
  4. To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
  5. 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.

Adjective

  1. Suitable for use in athletic activities or for casual or informal wear.
    Jen has a new pair of sport shoes, and a new sports bra.


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