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.