Noun

(countable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.

(countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.

* Jen may have won, but she was sure a poor sport ; she laughed at the loser.

* The loser was a good sport , and congratulated Jen on her performance.

(countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirable manner, a good sport.

* You're such a sport ! You never get upset when we tease you.

(obsolete) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.

* Shakespeare

Think it but a minute spent in sport .

* Sir Philip Sidney

Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight.

* Hey Diddle Diddle

The little dog laughed to see such sport , and the dish ran away with the spoon.

(obsolete) Mockery; derision.

* Shakespeare

Then make sport at me; then let me be your jest.

(countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.

* Dryden

flitting leaves, the sport of every wind

* John Clarke

Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions.

(uncountable) Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.

(biology, botany, zoology, countable) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.

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(slang, countable) A sportsman; a gambler.

(slang, countable) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.

(obsolete, uncountable) An amorous dalliance.

* Charlie and Lisa enjoyed a bit of sport after their hike.

(informal, usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)

* {{quote-magazine

, date= , year=1924 , month=July , first= , last= , author=Ellis Butler , coauthors= , title=The Little Tin Godlets , volume=25 , issue=1 , page=14 , magazine=The Rotarian , publisher=Rotary International , issn= citation , passage="Say, sport !" he would say briskly.}}

(obsolete) Play; idle jingle.

* Broome

An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage would meet with small applause.

Noun

(label) An act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.

*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

, chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=The case was that of a murder . It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}

* 1984 , Humphrey Carpenter, Mari Prichard, The Oxford companion to children's literature , page 275:

It may be guessed, indeed, that this was the original form of the story, the fairy being the addition of those who considered Jack's thefts from (and murder of) the giant to be scarcely justified without her.

* 2003 , Paul Ruditis, Star Trek Voyager: Companion (ISBN 0743417518), page 131:

Captain Sulu, who served under the legendary James T. Kirk for many years, disobeys Starfleet orders in order to try and help Kirk and another old shipmate, Dr. McCoy, who have been imprisoned for the murder of the Klingon chancellor.

* 2011 , Carlene Brennen, Hemingway's Cats (ISBN 1561644897), page 161:

Dr. Herrera also knew Hemingway had held Batista's army personally responsible for the brutal murders of his dogs, Blackie (Black Dog) and Machakos.

(label) The crime of deliberate killing of another human.

* {{quote-news, date=21 August 2012, author=Ed Pilkington, newspaper=The Guardian

, title= Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die? , passage=Reggie Clemons has one last chance to save his life. After 19 years on death row in Missouri for the murder of two young women, he has been granted a final opportunity to persuade a judge that he should be spared execution by lethal injection.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Old soldiers? , passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.

The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human.

Something terrible to endure.

(label) A group of crows;

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* {{quote-book, 2001, (Daniel Handler), The Vile Village, isbn=0064408655, page=76

, passage=Without the murder of crows roosting in its branches, Nevermore Tree looked as bare as a skeleton.}}