sport

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A physical activity or game played according to rules, often in competition.

   Basketball is her favorite sport.

2. 2
   noun

   A person who behaves in a fair and good-natured way, especially when teased or beaten.

   You're such a good sport for laughing along with the joke.

3. 3
   verb

   To wear or show something in a proud or noticeable way.

   He arrived sporting a brand-new leather jacket.

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Simplified etymology

Sport is a shortened form of Middle English disport, which came through French from Latin dis, “away,” and portare, “to carry.” It first meant entertainment of any kind and developed its modern sense of a physical activity governed by rules near the end of the Middle Ages.

From Middle English sporten (“to divert, disport”, verb) and sport, spoort, sporte (noun), apheretic shortenings of disporten (verb) and disport, disporte (noun), from Old French desporter (“to divert, amuse, please, play; to seek amusement”), etymologically meaning "to carry away (the mind from serious matters)," from des- + porter, from Latin dis- + Latin portāre, ultimately from Latin deportāre, from de- + portāre, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to lead, pass over”)). Replaced native English laik, lake (“sport, fun, amusement”), and Middle English spile, spyl (“fun, sport, play”). More at…

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