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.
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Generally it's deadly from the sportsman's point of view; but it seems to take the place of sport to the sportless.
From The Spinners by Phillpotts, Eden