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 Guerney, Bernard Guilbert
The innocence and humor of this sportful proposal appealed to them at once.
From Trail's End by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)
Wearying of the spear, we trolled for swordfish with hook and line, or used the baitless hook to entice the sportful albicore, or dolphin, whose curving black bodies splashed the sea about us.
From White Shadows in the South Seas by O'Brien, Frederick
While he said, He drew his glitt'ring helmet from his head, In which the youths to sportful arms he led.
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
The conversation was light and sportful, taking once or twice only, and accidentally, as it were, a political turn.
From Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra by Ware, William
