sport

1. 1.

   wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner

   “she was sporting a new hat”

   Synonymsfeatureboast

   Broaderhave
2. 2.

   play boisterously

   “The children frolicked in the garden”

   “the gamboling lambs in the meadows”

   “The toddlers romped in the playroom”

   Synonymsfroliclarkrollickskylarkdisportcavortgambolfriskromprun aroundlark about

   Broaderplay

Other forms of sport

plural

sports·

past tense

sported·

present participle

sporting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sport

What does sport mean?

sport means "an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sport?

sport has 1 syllable: sport. In IPA it is /ˈspɔɹt/.

What is another word for sport?

Close synonyms include athletics, summercater, sportsman, sportswoman, mutant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sport a common word?

sport is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with sport?

2 words rhyme with sport. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.