Synonyms of the word

sport

• n. (countable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that…
• n. (countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
• n. (countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirable manner, a good sport.
• n. (obsolete) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
• n. (obsolete) Mockery; derision.
• n. (countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
• n. (uncountable) Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.
• n. (biology, botany, zoology, countable) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some…
• n. (slang, countable) A sportsman; a gambler.
• n. (slang, countable) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) An amorous dalliance.
• n. (informal, usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question).
• n. (obsolete) Play; idle jingle.
• v. (intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.
• v. (intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
• v. (transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.
• v. (reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
• v. (transitive) To represent by any kind of play.
• v. To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
• v. To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species;…
• v. (transitive) To close (a door).

athlete

• n. A participant in a group of sporting activities which includes track and field, road running, cross country…
• n. (US, Canada) A person who actively participates in physical sports, especially with great skill; a sportsperson.
• n. An exceptionally physically fit person.

athletics

• n. (sports) Physical activities such as sports and games requiring stamina, fitness and skill.
• n. A group of sporting activities which includes track and field, road running, cross country and racewalking.

being

• v. present participle of be.
• n. A living creature.
• n. The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.
• n. (philosophy) That which has actuality (materially or in concept).
• n. (philosophy) One's basic nature, or the qualities thereof; essence or personality.
• n. (obsolete) An abode; a cottage.
• conj. (obsolete) Given that; since.

boast

• n. A brag, a loud positive appraisal of oneself.
• n. (squash (sport)) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
• v. (intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
• v. (transitive) To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
• v. (obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
• v. (squash (sport)) To play a boast shot.
• v. (ergative) To possess something special.
• v. (masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
• v. (sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form…

business

• n. (countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
• n. (countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.
• n. (uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
• n. (uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.
• n. (uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.
• n. (uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.
• n. (uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
• n. (countable) A particular situation or activity.
• n. (countable) An objective or a matter needing to be dealt with.
• n. (uncountable) Something involving one personally.
• n. (uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
• n. (travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and…
• n. (acting) Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
• n. (countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
• n. (uncountable, slang, Britain) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees").
• n. (slang, uncountable) Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.
• adj. Of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or…
• adj. Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
• adj. Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.

cavort

• v. (originally intransitive) To prance, said of mounts.
• v. (intransitive) To move about carelessly, playfully or boisterously.

disport

• v. (transitive, intransitive) to amuse oneself divertingly or playfully; to cavort or gambol.
• v. To display ostentatiously.
• v. To remove from a port; to carry away.
• n. (archaic) A pastime; anything which diverts one from serious matters; a game; sport; relaxation, recreation;…
• n. (obsolete) Fun; gaiety; merriment; mirth; joy.
• n. (obsolete) Deportment; bearing; carriage.
• n. (obsolete) orientation; elevation; bearing.

diversion

• n. (military) A tactic used to draw attention away from the real threat or action.
• n. A hobby; an activity that distracts the mind.
• n. The act of diverting.
• n. Removal of water via a canal.
• n. (transport) A detour, such as during road construction.
• n. (transport) The rerouting of cargo or passengers to a new transshipment point or destination, or to a…
• n. (law) Officially halting or suspending a formal criminal or juvenile justice proceeding and referral of…

feature

• n. (obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
• n. An important or main item.
• n. (media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently…
• n. Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
• n. (computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
• n. The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty,…
• n. (archaeology) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and…
• n. (engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer,…
• v. (transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
• v. (transitive) To star, to contain.
• v. (intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.

frisk

• adj. Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky.
• n. A frolic; a fit of wanton gaiety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap.
• v. To frolic, gambol, skip, dance, leap.
• v. To search somebody by feeling his or her body and clothing.

frolic

• adj. (now rare) Merry, joyous; later especially, frolicsome, sportive, full of playful mischief.
• adj. (obsolete, rare) Free; liberal; bountiful; generous.
• n. Gaiety; merriment.
• n. A playful antic.
• v. (intransitive) To romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to be merry.

fun

• n. amusement, enjoyment or pleasure.
• n. playful, often noisy, activity.
• adj. (informal) enjoyable, amusing.
• adj. (informal) whimsical, flamboyant.
• v. (colloquial) To tease, kid, poke fun at, make fun of.

gambol

• v. (intransitive) To move about playfully; to frolic.
• v. (Britain, West Midlands) To do a forward roll.
• n. An instance of running or skipping about playfully.
• n. An instance of more general frisking or frolicking.

have

• v. (transitive) To possess, own, hold.
• v. (transitive) To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
• v. (transitive) To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
• v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.
• v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) must.
• v. (transitive) To give birth to.
• v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
• v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
• v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
• v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is…
• v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
• v. Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion,…
• v. (Britain, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
• v. (Ireland) To be able to speak a language.
• v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
• v. To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative.
• v. To trick, to deceive.
• v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow.
• v. (transitive) To host someone.

humor

• n. American spelling of humour.
• v. American spelling of humour.

humour

• n. (uncountable) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
• n. (uncountable) A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by…
• n. (archaic or historical) Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of…
• n. (medicine) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
• n. (obsolete) Moist vapour, moisture.
• v. (transitive) To pacify by indulging.

individual

• n. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
• n. (law) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
• n. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
• n. (statistics) An element belonging to a population.
• adj. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
• adj. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

job

• n. A task.
• n. An economic role for which a person is paid.
• n. (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
• n. (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
• n. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
• n. A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty,…
• n. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
• n. A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
• v. (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
• v. (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
• v. (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss.
• v. (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
• v. (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
• v. (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private…
• v. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
• v. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
• v. To hire or let in periods of service.

jock

• n. (slang, archaic) A common man.
• n. (Britain, slang, pejorative) A Scotsman.
• n. (slang, rare, dated) The penis.
• n. An athletic supporter worn by men to support the genitals especially during sports, a jockstrap.
• n. (US, slang) A young male athlete (through college age).
• n. (US, slang, pejorative) An enthusiastic athlete or sports fan, especially one with few other interests…
• n. (US, slang, computing, in combination) A specialist computer programmer.
• v. (slang) to masturbate.
• v. (slang) to humiliate.
• v. (slang) to steal.

lark

• n. Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.
• n. Any of various similar-appearing birds, but usually ground-living, such as the meadowlark and titlark.
• n. One who wakes early; one who is up with the larks.
• v. To catch larks.
• n. A romp, frolic, some fun.
• n. A prank.
• v. To sport, engage in harmless pranking.
• v. To frolic, engage in carefree adventure.

line

• n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
• n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
• n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
• n. Direction, path.
• n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
• n. A letter, a written form of communication.
• n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
• n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
• n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
• n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
• n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
• n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
• n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
• n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
• n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
• n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
• n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
• n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
• n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
• n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
• n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
• n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
• n. A measure of length.
• n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
• n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
• n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
• n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
• n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
• n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
• n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
• n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
• v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
• v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
• v. To form a line along.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
• v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
• v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
• n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
• v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
• v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
• v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

mortal

• adj. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
• adj. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
• adj. Fatally vulnerable; vital.
• adj. Of or relating to the time of death.
• adj. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
• adj. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
• adj. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
• n. A human; someone susceptible to death.

mutant

• n. Something which has mutated, which has one or more new characteristics from a mutation.
• n. (informal) Someone or something that seems strange, abnormal, or bizarre.
• n. (computing) Synonym of mutex.
• adj. Of, relating to, undergoing (i.e. mutating), or resulting from change or mutation; that has undergone…
• adj. (informal) Strange, abnormal, or bizarre.

mutation

• n. Any alteration or change.
• n. (genetics) Any heritable change of the base-pair sequence of genetic material.
• n. A mutant.
• n. (linguistics) An alteration a particular sound of a word, especially the initial consonant, which is triggered…
• n. (rare) A collective noun for a collection of thrushes.

occupation

• n. An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service,…
• n. The act, process or state of possessing a place.
• n. The control of a country or region by a hostile army.

organism

• n. (biology) A discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.
• n. (by extension) Any complex thing with properties normally associated with living things.

person

• n. An individual; usually a human being.
• n. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
• n. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
• n. (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
• n. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom…
• n. (biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also,…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
• v. (transitive, gender-neutral) To man.

play

• v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose…
• v. (ergative) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
• v. (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love, fornicate; to have sex.
• v. (transitive) To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
• v. (heading, transitive, intransitive) To produce music or theatre.
• v. (heading) To behave in a particular way.
• v. (intransitive) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion;…
• v. (intransitive) To move gaily; to disport.
• v. (transitive) To put in action or motion.
• v. (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
• v. (transitive) To manipulate or deceive someone.
• n. (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
• n. (uncountable) Similar activity, in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
• n. (uncountable, ethology) "Repeated, incompletely functional behavior differing from more serious versions…
• n. The conduct, or course of a game.
• n. (countable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
• n. (countable) (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
• n. (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters…
• n. (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
• n. (countable) A major move by a business.
• n. (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other…
• n. (uncountable) The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely.
• n. (uncountable, informal) Sexual role-playing.
• n. (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.

recreation

• n. Any activity, such as play, that amuses, diverts or stimulates.
• n. The process of recreating something.
• n. The result of this process.

rollick

• v. To behave in a playful or carefree manner; to frolic or romp.
• v. (Euphemism for bollock; also spelled rollock) To reprimand.

romp

• v. (intransitive) To play about roughly, energetically or boisterously.
• v. (transitive, US) (Often used with down) To press forcefully, to encourage vehemently, to oppress.
• v. To win easily.
• v. (slang) To engage in playful or boisterous sex.
• n. A period of boisterous play, a frolic.
• n. (slang) A bout of playful or boisterous sex.
• n. (archaic) A girl who indulges in boisterous play; a tomboy.

skylark

• n. A small brown passerine bird, Alauda arvensis, that sings as it flies high into the air.
• v. (dated, originally nautical) To jump about joyfully, frolic; to play around, play tricks.

somebody

• pron. Some unspecified person.
• n. A recognised person, a celebrity.

someone

• pron. Some person.
• n. A partially specified but unnamed person.

soul

• n. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and…
• n. The spirit or essence of anything.
• n. Life, energy, vigor.
• n. (music) Soul music.
• n. A person, especially as one among many.
• n. An individual life.
• n. (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
• v. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

sportsman

• n. (Britain) A man who engages in sports; a male athlete.
• n. (dated) A man who engages in country sports, such as hunting or fishing.

sportswoman

• n. (Britain) A woman who engages in sports. A female athlete.

vacationer

• n. (US) someone who is on vacation.

vacationist

• n. Someone who is on vacation.

variation

• n. The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing.
• n. A related but distinct thing.
• n. (nautical) The angular difference at the vessel between the direction of true north and magnetic north…
• n. (board games) A line of play that differs from the original.
• n. (music) A technique where material is repeated with alterations to the melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre,…
• n. (genetics) The modification of a hereditary trait.

wit

• n. (now usually in the plural) Sanity.
• n. (obsolete usually in the plural) The senses.
• n. Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
• n. The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
• n. Intelligence; common sense.
• n. Humour, especially when clever or quick.
• n. A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, chiefly archaic) Know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively).
• prep. (Southern US) Alternative spelling of with.

witticism

• n. a witty remark.

wittiness

• n. the quality of being witty.