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 Sport n.
 1. That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
    It is as sport to a fool to do mischief.   --Prov. x. 23.
    Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight.   --Sir P. Sidney.
    Think it but a minute spent in sport.   --Shak.
 2. Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
    Then make sport at me; then let me be your jest.    --Shak.
 3. That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
    Flitting leaves, the sport of every wind.   --Dryden.
    Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions.   --John Clarke.
 4. Play; idle jingle.
    An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage would meet with small applause.   --Broome.
 5. Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.
 6. Bot. & Zool. 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. See Sporting plant, under Sporting.
 7. A sportsman; a gambler. [Slang]
 In sport, in jest; for play or diversion. “So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in sport?”
 Syn: -- Play; game; diversion; frolic; mirth; mock; mockery; jeer.

 Sport·ing, a. Of, pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sports; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports.
 Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. --C. Kingsley.
 Sporting house, a house frequented by sportsmen, gamblers, and the like.
 Sporting man, one who practices field sports; also, a horse racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like.
 Sporting plant Bot., a plant in which a single bud or offset suddenly assumes a new, and sometimes very different, character from that of the rest of the plant. --Darwin.
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