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sport

/spawrt/US // spɔrt //UK // (spɔːt) //

体育,运动,体育运动,体育项目

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n.名词 noun
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    • : 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.
    • : a particular form of this, especially in the out of doors.
    • : sports, such athletic activities collectively: Sports is important in my life.
    • : diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime.
    • : jest; fun; mirth; pleasantry: What he said in sport was taken seriously.
    • : mockery; ridicule; derision: They made sport of him.
    • : an object of derision; laughingstock.
    • : something treated lightly or tossed about like a plaything.
    • : something or someone subject to the whims or vicissitudes of fate, circumstances, etc.
    • : a sportsman.
    • : Informal. a person who behaves in a sportsmanlike, fair, or admirable manner; an accommodating person: He was a sport and took his defeat well.
    • : Informal. a person who is interested in sports as an occasion for gambling; gambler.
    • : Informal. a flashy person; one who wears showy clothes, affects smart manners, pursues pleasurable pastimes, or the like; a bon vivant.
    • : Biology. an organism or part that shows an unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; mutation.
    • : Obsolete. amorous dalliance.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Also sports .

    • : of, relating to, or used in sports or a particular sport:sport fishing.
    • : suitable for outdoor or informal wear: sport clothes.
v.无主动词 verb
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    • : to amuse oneself with some pleasant pastime or recreation.
    • : to play, frolic, or gambol, as a child or an animal.
    • : to engage in some open-air or athletic pastime or sport.
    • : to trifle or treat lightly: to sport with another's emotions.
    • : to mock, scoff, or tease: to sport at suburban life.
    • : Biology. mutate.
v.有主动词 verb
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    • : to pass in amusement or sport.
    • : to spend or squander lightly or recklessly.
    • : Informal. to wear, display, carry, etc., especially with ostentation: Celebs are frequently seen sporting a wide array of designer handbags.
    • : Archaic. to amuse.

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Examples

  • The hardest things to teach and evaluate online, instructors say, are the skills, strategies and collaboration involved in team sports.

  • If kneeling during the anthem is injecting politics into sports, so is that request.

  • All gatherings, including at sporting events, have been banned.

  • Hermetically sealing off sports from the rest of society isn’t a way to accomplish that.

  • Really, he was doing sports performance before sports performance became a high priority in college sports.

  • Cricket is a sport enjoyed by hundreds of millions around the globe, mainly in former British colonies.

  • When he reaches a low point in his career, in 1997, he writes that he “even contemplated moving away from the sport completely.”

  • Sachin Tendulkar may be one of the most brilliant players in the sport, but he struggles to liven up his memoirs.

  • The sport of surfing is a very sexy sport, beautiful people on beautiful beaches in minimal clothing.

  • Like I said, as a team we drew attention to the sport in a way no one ever has.

  • Many British Ferns evidence a marked tendency to “sport,” and this is a fact which the beginner should always bear in mind.

  • He said something laughingly to the head guide to the effect that climbing was good sport and a fine test for the nerves.

  • Tiger-hunting, by the way, was considered great sport by Yung Pak's father.

  • The more enthusiastic among the audience, male and female, also sport the red cap of liberty.

  • They had come down from the kraal to enjoy the sport and get some of the meat, of which they are particularly fond.