Reverse Dictionary: SPORT

(see SPORTS for athletics, etc.)

ADJECTIVES 
1582 MAKE-SPORT providing sport; mocking → obs.


NOUNS
1200 GAME AND GLEE amusement, delight, fun, mirth, sport → obs.
1200 LAKE play, sport, fun, glee → obs.
1320 RAGE extravagant, riotous, or wanton behaviour; sport, game; jest, jesting talk → obs.
1515 EBATE sport, diversion → obs.


NOUNS, PERSON
1611 MAKE-SPORT one who or something which provides sport for others; hence, a laughingstock → obs.
1896 JIG an object of sport → sl. (Bk.)


VERBS
1000 GAME to play, to sport, to jest; to amuse oneself; also, to indulge in amorous play → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1300 LAKE to play, to sport; to make a holiday from work → chiefly Eng. dial.
1390 PLAY ABOBBED WITH to play blindman’s buff with a blindfolded person; also, to fool, to make sport of → obs.
1516 ILLUDE to mock, to make sport of, to deride → obs.
1592 WANTONIZE to play the wanton; to dally, to sport, to frolic; to indulge in lasciviousness → arch.
19C.. FRATCH to sport, to frolic → Eng. dial.
1841 FADDLE to make sport of → Eng. dial.
1859 HAVE A RIG ON to play a joke on, to make sport of → Amer. dial.
1900 HORSE to tease or make sport of; to bait → US sl.