Reverse Dictionary: SPORTIVE

ADJECTIVES
– CADGIE in good spirits, gay, cheerful, sportive, wanton …1725 Sc.
– CAGEY;  CAGIE in good spirits, gay, cheerful, sportive, wanton …1725 Sc.
– DAFFING playful, sportive, foolish …1724 Sc. 
– GAMBOL sportive, playful …1597 obs.
– GAMEFUL joyful, playful, sportive, jesting …c1205 obs.
– GAMELY sportive, merry …c1425 obs.
– GAMESOME frolicsome, merry, playful, sportive …c1350
– GAMING sportive, jocular …1552 obs.
– GILPY sportive …1863 Sc.
– JOCULATORY having the character of a jester; uttered in jest; jocular, droll, humorous, sportive, merry, jesting …1623 obs.
– LARKING frolicsome, sportive …1828 colloq.
– LARKSOME frolicsome, sportive …1871 colloq.
– LARKY ready for a lark; frolicsome, sportive …1851 colloq.
– LUDIBUND full of play, playful, sportive …1668 obs. rare
– LUDICROUS pert. to play or sport; sportive; intended in jest, jocular, derisive …1619 obs.
– LUDITORY merry, sportive, playful …B1900
– LUSIVE playful, sportive …1871 rare
– LUSORIOUS used in sport or as a pastime; sportive, playful …1619 obs.
– LUSORY sportive, playful …1653
– RAFFISH sportive; rough …Bk19C Eng. dial.

ADVERBS
1601 ► GAMESOMELY playfully, sportively
1607 ► LASCIVIOUSLY sportively → obs.
1678 ► LUDICROUSLY sportively, jestingly, humorously → obs.

NOUNS
1535 ► DAFFING sportive behaviour or talk, gaiety, folly
1746 ► MARLOCK a frolic, a gambol, a piece of fun; a sportive gesture → Eng. dial.
1768 ► DAFFERY folly, foolishness, gaiety, sportiveness; thoughtlessness → Sc. obs.
1825 ► CAIDGINESS gaiety, sportiveness → Sc.
1888 ► CADGINESS sportiveness, cheerfulness → Sc. (Bk.)

NOUNS, PERSON
1589 ► WANTON a person, esp. a child, of playful, roguish or sportive conduct; sometimes used as a term of endearment → obs.
1616 ► GAMESTER a merry, sportive, or frolicsome person → obs.
1703 ► RIDGEL a term of abuse applied to men; a sportive, mischievous lad → Eng. dial.

VERBS
1535 ► DAFF to talk or behave sportively; to frolic, to sport, to jest → chiefly Sc.