English Online Dictionary. What means sports? What does sports mean?
English
Etymology
From sport + -s.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /spɔːts/
- (General American) IPA(key): /spɔɹts/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /spo(ː)ɹts/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /spoəts/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ts
Noun
sports
- plural of sport
Noun
sports (uncountable)
- Synonym of sport (“the class of physical activies; athletics”)
Derived terms
Verb
sports
- third-person singular simple present indicative of sport
Verb
sports (third-person singular simple present sportses, present participle sportsing, simple past and past participle sportsed)
- To participate in sports; typically used by a person with little interest in the subject to derisively elide details of the activity in question.
Anagrams
- Prosts, strops
French
Pronunciation
Noun
sports m
- plural of sport
Latvian
Etymology
Probably via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from English sport.
Pronunciation
Noun
sports m (1st declension)
- sport, sports
- nodarboties ar sportu ― to occupy oneself with, to practice sports
- sporta veidi ― (types of) sports
- sporta būve / sporta bāze ― gymnasium, sports facility
- sporta skola ― sports school
- sporta medicīna ― sports medicine
- sporta meistars ― sports master
- cīņas sports ― martial arts (lit. fighting sports)
- slēpošana ir patīkams sports ― skiing is an enjoyable sport
- activity about which one is passionate
- sēņošana viņam ir sports ― mushroom picking is a sport to him
Declension
Derived terms
- orientēšanās sports
- sportisks, sportiskums
- sportists, sportiste
Swedish
Verb
sports
- passive supine of spörja
Noun
sports
- indefinite genitive singular of sport
Anagrams
- prosts