How do you define 'sport'?

Answer 1

"Sport" can refer to one of the following:

1) (a) (also used in the plural) individual or team games requiring physical skills such as strength, stamina, or agility played in a defined open-air or enclosed space; (b) an individual or team game requiring physical skills such as strength, stamina, or agility played in a defined open-air or enclosed space; (c) any form of recreation pursued during one's leisure; (d) athletics and recreation as a business, industry, or profession; (e) the occupation of athletes who compete to entertain spectators for pay

2) an outdoor diversion pursued in a natural environment away from urban areas, such as hunting or fishing

3) good-natured joking; jest

4) contemptuous laughter or treatment intended to devalue a person or thing; mockery; derision

5) a person judged in regards to behavior during a game or some other contest

6) a person who behaves in a praiseworthy manner when dealing with defeat or some other adversity

7) an informal term of address toward a man or a boy

8) (a) a person who lives a carefree life devoted to the pursuit of pleasure; a playboy or playgirl; (b) an extravagant person who spends money carelessly on luxuries

9) a person or thing regarded with indifference or contempt; a laughingstock

10) an organism, such as a plant or animal, exhibiting different characteristics from the normal type; a mutant

Answer 2

'Sport' can be defined as follows:

NOUN

1) any athletic endeavor; a competition in which human bodily performance is evaluated and compared according to agreed upon criteria

2) athletic competition as a field of human endeavor, especially as a profession, business, or industry

3) action that is performed for amusement only and not in earnest

4) contemptuous action or speech intended to disparage somebody or something

5) a person considered to be fair or unfair with regard to dealing with others

6) a person who willingly accepts setbacks or hardships

7) a living organism that deviates considerably from its parent stock, especially as a result of mutation

VERB

1) to display ostentatiously in order to impress others

2) to compete in sport as an athlete

3) to treat with contempt

4) to deal with a matter in a lighthearted or amusing way

ADJECTIVE

-of, pertaining to, concerned with, or used in athletic competition, especially with regard to equipment and clothing