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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But trifle not with love, my sportful Theseus.
From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various
She, whose pure passion knows nor guile nor wrong, With front of snow, with golden tresses crown'd, Combing her aged husband's hoar locks found, Wakes me when sportful wakes the warbling throng.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
"Nay," answered the Knight, tossing aside his blunt tilting-spear, "here is an end to sportful dalliance—reach me my lance!"
From The Geste of Duke Jocelyn by Jeffery Farnol
In serious thoughts of Death 'twas thy desire This sportful Book should be condemn'd with Fire: If so, because it doth intend Love-matters, It rather should be quench'd or drown'd i'th waters.
From The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) by William Riley Parker
In speaking, she kept her eyes on the girl, who appeared to muse the subject with sportful malice.
From The Emancipated by George Gissing
