1. Physical activity governed by rules and often involving competition
   "Professional sport has become big business";
   - athletics
    
2. The occupation of athletes who compete for pay
   "He made a career in professional sport"
    
3. Verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)
   "he said it in sport";
   - fun, play
    
4. A person known for the way they behave when teased, defeated or subjected to trying circumstances
   "a good sport"; "a poor sport"
    
5. (biology) organism showing genetic or spontaneous deviation from typical form
   "This unusual flower is a natural sport";
   - mutant, mutation, variation
    
6. [informal] (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine
   "The locals watched as the sports arrived for another summer season";
   - summercater [US, informal]

1. Wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner
   "she was sporting a new hat";
   - feature, boast
    
2. Play boisterously
   "The children sported in the garden";
   - frolic, lark [informal], rollick, skylark [informal], disport, cavort, gambol, frisk, romp, run around, lark about [informal]

Derived forms: sporting, sports, sported

Type of: being, business, diversion, drollness, feature, grockle [UK, informal], have, holidaymaker [Brit, Cdn], humor [US], humour [Brit, Cdn], individual, job, line, line of work, mortal, occupation, organism, person, play, recreation, somebody, someone, soul, vacationer [N. Amer], vacationist [N. Amer], wit, witticism, wittiness

Encyclopedia: Sport, Exercise & Performance Psychology