sports is a form of:
Sport
noun
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- (An athletic [especially outdoor] activity, any game or pastime, an outdoor pastime, such as hunting or fishing activities or pastimes, collectively the world of sport, fun or play, an object of ridicule plaything, a person who is sports, plant animal showing some variation from the moral type) ល្បែង, ការលេង, ការកំសាន្ដ, ល្បែង, ល្បែងមានក្បួនខ្នាតរឺវិន័យ, កីឡា say in sport និយាយលេង, good sport មនុស្សចិត្ដធ្ងន់
Example: I play chess for sport money. - 2.
- (FRENCH) ស្ព័រ
verb — past tense: sported ; past participle: sported ; present participle: sporting ;
- 1.
- (INTRANSITIVE) (1. To play or frolic. 2. To joke or trifle. 3. Biology. To mutate) sport about បញ្ចេញ, sport with បោក, បញ្ឆោត
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) (to wear or display, to play or frolic, to trifle) នាំដើរលេង
Example: A sport stadium; sport clothes, We often do things just for the sport of it. Mother teased us in sport, Dara sported a new hat on Sunday, It is good sport to go fishing, Hockey, cricket.sport a new suit បញ្ចេញ
Example: sport a mustache a diamond ring, a flower in one's buttonhole.
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
- 2.
- Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
- 3.
- That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
- 4.
- Play; idle jingle.
- 5.
- Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.
- 6.
- 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.
verb — past tense: sported ; past participle: sported ; present participle: sporting ;
- 1.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To play; to frolic; to wanton.
- 2.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
- 3.
- (INTRANSITIVE) 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.
- 4.
- (TRANSITIVE) To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun.
- 5.
- (TRANSITIVE) To represent by any knd of play.
- 6.
- (TRANSITIVE) To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage.
- 7.
- (TRANSITIVE) To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off epigrams.
- 1.
- amusement, contest, diversion, fun, game, match, merriment, pastime, play, recreation
- 2.
- caper, frolic, gamble, gambol, play, revel, romp, stake, wager
- 1.
- business, drudgery, hardship, labor, work
- 1.
- To trifle
- 2.
- A sportsman, a gambler