English Dictionary

sport

/spɔːt/

verb

(intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play. / (intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with. / (transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.

I love to sport on the weekends.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.

children sporting on the green

意味（2）

(intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.

Jen sports with Bill's emotions.

意味（3）

(transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.

[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].

意味（4）

(reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.

Against whom do ye sport yourselves?

意味（5）

(transitive) To represent by any kind of play.

Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth.

意味（6）

To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.

意味（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.

more than one kind of rose has sported into a moss

意味（8）

(transitive) To close (a door).

There he locked it up in a drawer, sported the doors of both sets of rooms, and retired to bed.