n. - That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
n. - Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
n. - That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
n. - Play; idle jingle.
n. - Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.
n. - 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. See Sporting plant, under Sporting.
n. - A sportsman; a gambler.
v. i. - To play; to frolic; to wanton.
v. i. - To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
v. i. - To trifle.
v. i. - 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. See Sport, n., 6.
v. t. - To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun.
v. t. - To represent by any knd of play.
v. t. - To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage.
v. t. - To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off epigrams.