sport

sport

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /spɔːt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /spɔɹt/
  • (Tasmanian) IPA(key): /spɔː/
  • (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /spo(ː)ɹt/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /spoət/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

Noun

sport (countable and uncountable, plural sports)

  2. (countable, uncountable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
  3. (countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
  4. (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.
  5. (archaic) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
    • a. 1765, year of origin unknown, Hey Diddle Diddle (traditional rhyme)
      The little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hobby
  6. (archaic) Mockery, making fun; derision.
  7. (countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
  8. (uncountable) Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, or fishing.
  9. (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.
  10. (slang, countable) A sportsman; a gambler.
  11. (slang, countable) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
  12. (obsolete, uncountable) An amorous dalliance.
  13. (informal, usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:friend
  14. Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy.
  15. (archaic) Play; idle jingle.
    • 1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey
      An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage […] would meet with small applause.

Derived terms

Descendants

From plural sports:

  • Japanese: スポーツ (supōtsu)
  • Korean: 스포츠 (seupocheu)

Translations

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.
  2. (intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
  3. (transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.
  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. (transitive, archaic) To close (a door).

Derived terms

  • sport one's oak, sport the oak

Translations

References

  • (sportsman, gambler): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

  • ports., Prost, -prost, -prost-, torps, ports, trops., strop, Ports, Prots

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsport]

Noun

sport m inan

  1. sport

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • “sport”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “sport”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “sport”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spɔrt/
  • Hyphenation: sport
  • Rhymes: -ɔrt

Etymology 1

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. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

sport f (plural sporten, diminutive sportje n)

  1. (countable) a sport; (uncountable) sports
    Mijn buurman is dol op sport. ― My neighbour is keen on sports.
    Darts is de gezondste sport op aarde. ― Darts is the most healthy sport on Earth.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Caribbean Javanese: sport
  • → Papiamentu: spòrt
  • → West Frisian: sport

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch sporte, metathesised form of sprote. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

sport f (plural sporten, diminutive sportje n)

  1. rung, step on a ladder
Descendants
  • → Papiamentu: spor, sport

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

sport

  1. inflection of sporten:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Anagrams

  • sprot, strop

Estonian

Etymology

From German Sport, from English sport.

Noun

sport (genitive spordi, partitive sporti)

  1. sport, sports

Declension

References

  • sport in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

French

Etymology

Earlier 19th century, borrowed from English sport. At first also pronounced with a final /t/.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spɔʁ/

Noun

sport m (plural sports)

  1. sport

Derived terms

Related terms

  • déporter

Descendants

  • Haitian Creole: espò
  • → Greek: σπορ (spor)
  • → Northern Kurdish: spor (likely through Turkish)
  • → Romanian: sport
  • → Turkish: spor
  • → Walloon: spôrt

Further reading

  • “sport”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʃport]
  • Hyphenation: sport
  • Rhymes: -ort

Noun

sport (plural sportok)

  1. sport

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • sport in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Italian

Alternative forms

  • sporte

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sport. Doublet of diporto.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈspɔrt/
  • Rhymes: -ɔrt
  • Hyphenation: spòrt

Noun

sport m (invariable)

  1. sport (activity that uses physical skills, often competitive)
  2. hobby, pastime
    fare qualcosa per sport ― to do something for fun

Derived terms

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Borrowed from English sport.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spɔrt/

Noun

sport m inan

  1. sport (athletic activity that uses physical skills)

Declension

References

  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “sport”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Norman

Noun

sport m (plural sports)

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From English sport.

Noun

sport m (definite singular sporten, uncountable)

  1. sport
    Synonym: idrett
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

  • spora, sporet

Verb

sport

  1. past participle of spore

References

  • “sport” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English sport.

Noun

sport m (definite singular sporten, uncountable)

  1. sport
    Synonym: idrett

Derived terms

  • hestesport
  • kampsport

References

  • “sport” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English sport.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈspɔrt/
  • Rhymes: -ɔrt
  • Syllabification: sport

Noun

sport m inan

  1. sport

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • sport in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • sport in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sport.

Pronunciation

Noun

sport n (plural sporturi)

  1. sport

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • špȍrt (Croatia)

Etymology

Borrowed from English sport.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spôrt/

Noun

spȍrt m (Cyrillic spelling спо̏рт)

  1. sport

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “sport”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Swedish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English sport, first used in 1857.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈspɔʈ/
  • Homophone: spott (southeastern Sweden)

Noun

sport c

  1. (uncountable) sports
  2. (countable) a sport
Declension
Derived terms
See also
  • idrott

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈspʊʈ/

Verb

sport

  1. supine of spörja

References

  • sport in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • sport in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • sport in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
  • sport in Nationalencyklopedin (needs an authorization fee).

Anagrams

  • ports, prost, torps

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch sport, from English sport.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spɔ(r)t/

Noun

sport c (plural sporten)

  1. sport (physical activity)

Further reading

  • “sport”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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