noun
- Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
- Something done for fun, regardless of its design or intended purpose.
- A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
- Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
- That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
- Mockery, making fun; derision.
- A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
- Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.
- 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.
- A sportsman; a gambler.
- One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
- An amorous dalliance.
- (usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
- Play; idle jingle.
verb
- To amuse oneself, to play.
- To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
- To display; to have as a notable feature.
- To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
- 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.
- 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.
- To close (a door).
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