sport
noun
an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
sportful
-
a word derived from
sport.
Example Sentences
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While two weeks after the death of Verka, the naive, sportful, meek, brawling Little White Manka perished as well.
From Yama: the pit by Bernard Guilbert Guerney
If we design either to please or vex them into better manners, we must be as sportful in a manner, or as contemptuous as themselves.
From Sermons on Evil-Speaking by Isaac Barrow
Rolling and lurching along, gambolling like good-humoured, contented children, the herd moves leisurely to and from favourite feeding-grounds, occasionally splashing mightily with powerful tails to make fountains of illuminated spray—great, unreflecting, sportful water-babes.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
Thus as we pass the welcome night In sportful pleasures and delight, The nimble fairies on the grounds Shall dance and sing melodious sounds.
From Bacon and Shakspere by William Henry Burr
How with a sportful malice it was follow'd May rather pluck on laughter than revenge, If that the injuries be justly weigh'd That have on both sides past.
From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
