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Exact Match:

sport

the occupation of athletes who compete for pay

an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition

someone who engages in sports

a person known for the way she (or he) behaves when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances; "a good sport"; "a poor sport"

(Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine

wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she was sporting a new hat"

Synonyms:

• Beau Brummel,
• Monopoly,
• Ping-Pong,
• Rugby,
• Scrabble,
• acrobatics,
• action,
• adventurer,
• advertise,
• affect,
• agate,
• agonistics,
• air,
• also-ran,
• amateur athlete,
• amusement,
• anomaly,
• antic,
• antics,
• archer,
• archery,
• association football,
• athlete,
• athletics,
• avatar,
• backgammon,
• badinage,
• badminton,
• bagatelle,
• ball,
• ballplayer,
• bandy,
• banter,
• baseball,
• baseball bat,
• baseballer,
• baseman,
• basketball,
• bat,
• bathing,
• batter,
• battery,
• battledore,
• battledore and shuttlecock,
• bauble,
• be dressed in,
• beano,
• beat,
• beau,
• belly laugh,
• betting ring,
• bettor,
• big time,
• billiards,
• bingo,
• blade,
• blazon forth,
• blocking back,
• blocks,
• blood,
• blue story,
• boneshaker,
• booby,
• boulevardier,
• bout,
• bowling,
• bowls,
• bowman,
• boxing,
• brandish,
• butt,
• call,
• caper,
• caracole,
• cardshark,
• cardsharp,
• cardsharper,
• carry on,
• cast lots,
• cat,
• catabolism,
• catalysis,
• catch,
• catcher,
• cavort,
• center,
• chaff,
• charades,
• chase,
• checkerboard,
• checkers,
• chess,
• chessboard,
• chevy,
• chivy,
• climbing,
• clotheshorse,
• club,
• coach,
• cockhorse,
• competitor,
• compulsive gambler,
• consubstantiation,
• contest,
• course,
• coursing,
• coxcomb,
• crambo,
• crap shooter,
• cricket,
• cricket bat,
• cricketer,
• croquet,
• crosspatch,
• cue,
• curling,
• curvet,
• cut a dido,
• cut capers,
• cut lots,
• cut the cards,
• cut up,
• cynegetics,
• dance,
• dandy,
• dangle,
• decathlon,
• defeatee,
• defensive lineman,
• demonstrate,
• deride,
• derision,
• dirty joke,
• dirty story,
• discus,
• displacement,
• display,
• disport,
• distraction,
• diversion,
• divertissement,
• dog,
• doll,
• doll carriage,
• dominoes,
• double entendre,
• double-header,
• doubles,
• draughts,
• draw lots,
• draw straws,
• drive,
• duck,
• dude,
• emblazon,
• end,
• enjoyment,
• entertainment,
• ethnic joke,
• event,
• exchange,
• exhibit,
• exquisite,
• falcon,
• falconry,
• fall guy,
• fashion plate,
• fencing,
• fine gentleman,
• fishing,
• fives,
• flash,
• flaunt,
• flounce,
• flourish,
• flush,
• follow the hounds,
• fool around,
• fooling,
• fooling around,
• football,
• footballer,
• fop,
• foursome,
• fowl,
• fox hunting,
• freak,
• fribble,
• frisk,
• frolic,
• fun,
• fun and games,
• funmaking,
• funny story,
• gag,
• gallant,
• gamble,
• gambler,
• gambol,
• game,
• game loser,
• games,
• games of chance,
• games-player,
• gamester,
• gewgaw,
• ghost,
• gimcrack,
• give-and-take,
• gliding,
• go,
• go hunting,
• golf,
• golf club,
• good loser,
• good one,
• good sport,
• good story,
• good time,
• good-natured banter,
• great fun,
• guard,
• gun,
• gunning,
• gymnastics,
• handball,
• harmless teasing,
• have on,
• hawk,
• hawking,
• hazarder,
• heterotopia,
• hide-and-seek,
• high jinks,
• high old time,
• high time,
• hiking,
• hobbyhorse,
• hockey,
• hold up,
• hopscotch,
• horse around,
• horseplay,
• horseshoes,
• hound,
• howler,
• humor,
• hunt,
• hunt down,
• hunting,
• hurdling,
• ice hockey,
• individualist,
• infielder,
• inner-directed person,
• innovation,
• jack,
• jack-a-dandy,
• jack-in-the-box,
• jackanapes,
• jacklight,
• jacks,
• jackstones,
• jackstraws,
• jape,
• jest,
• jestbook,
• jive,
• jock,
• joke,
• jollification,
• josh,
• jumper,
• keno,
• kickshaw,
• kidding,
• kidding around,
• knickknack,
• lacrosse,
• lady-killer,
• lark,
• laugh,
• laughs,
• lawn tennis,
• leapfrog,
• lineman,
• loser,
• lot,
• lotto,
• lovely time,
• luging,
• macaroni,
• man-about-town,
• manifest,
• marble,
• marbles,
• marionette,
• masher,
• match,
• match coins,
• meet,
• merels,
• metabolism,
• metagenesis,
• metamorphism,
• metamorphosis,
• metastasis,
• metathesis,
• metempsychosis,
• mig,
• misfit,
• mock,
• mockery,
• motorcycling,
• mountaineering,
• mumble-the-peg,
• mutant,
• mutated form,
• mutation,
• natation,
• naysayer,
• ninepins,
• nonconformist,
• novelty,
• oddball,
• offensive lineman,
• outfield,
• outfielder,
• palaestra,
• pall-mall,
• pallone,
• panic,
• paper doll,
• parade,
• pastime,
• pelota,
• pentathlon,
• permutation,
• persiflage,
• petty gambler,
• pick-up sticks,
• picnic,
• piker,
• pilgarlic,
• pinwheel,
• play,
• play at dice,
• play the ponies,
• play-off,
• player,
• plaything,
• pleasant time,
• pleasantry,
• pleasure,
• plunger,
• point,
• polo,
• poloist,
• pool,
• post office,
• professional athlete,
• prowl after,
• pugilist,
• punter,
• puppet,
• puppy,
• pushball,
• put forth,
• put forward,
• pyramids,
• quarterback,
• quintain,
• quits,
• race,
• racer,
• racket,
• racquets,
• raffle off,
• rag doll,
• raillery,
• rallying,
• recreate,
• recreation,
• reincarnation,
• relaxation,
• rib tickler,
• ride to hounds,
• ridicule,
• riding,
• riot,
• rocking horse,
• roller skating,
• rollick,
• romp,
• rounders,
• rowing,
• rugger,
• run,
• runoff,
• sailing,
• sailplaning,
• scream,
• sculling,
• sharp,
• sharper,
• sharpie,
• shikar,
• shinny,
• shoot,
• shoot craps,
• shooting,
• shot-put,
• show off,
• shuffleboard,
• sick joke,
• sidesplitter,
• sight gag,
• singles,
• skater,
• skating,
• skeet,
• skeet shooting,
• ski-jumping,
• skiing,
• skin-diving,
• skip,
• skittles,
• sledding,
• snooker,
• snorkel diving,
• snowmobiling,
• soccer,
• softball,
• spark,
• speculate,
• speculator,
• sporting,
• sporting man,
• sports,
• sportsman,
• squash,
• stalk,
• stalking,
• start,
• steelie,
• stickball,
• still hunt,
• still-hunt,
• stooge,
• story,
• surfing,
• swell,
• swimming,
• table tennis,
• tackle,
• tailback,
• taw,
• tease,
• teetotum,
• tennis,
• tenpins,
• tent pegging,
• tetherball,
• the vanquished,
• threesome,
• ticktacktoe,
• tiddlywinks,
• tilting,
• tinhorn,
• tipcat,
• tipster,
• tivoli,
• tobogganing,
• top,
• toss,
• tout,
• toxophilite,
• toy,
• toy soldier,
• track,
• track and field,
• trail,
• transanimation,
• transfiguration,
• transfigurement,
• transformation,
• transformism,
• translation,
• translocation,
• transmigration,
• transmogrification,
• transmutation,
• transposition,
• transubstantiation,
• trapshooting,
• trinket,
• trip,
• trumpet,
• trumpet forth,
• tug of war,
• tumbling,
• twit,
• twosome,
• underdog,
• vaunt,
• venery,
• venturer,
• victim,
• visual joke,
• volleyball,
• wagerer,
• water polo,
• waterskiing,
• wave,
• wear,
• wheeze,
• whim-wham,
• wingback,
• wow,
• wrestler,
• wrestling,
• yarn