Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sport \Sport\ (sp[=o]rt), n. [Abbreviated frm disport.]
   1. That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.

            It is as sport a fool do mischief.    --prov. x. 23.

            Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge
            upon the stream of delight.           --Sir P.
                                                  Sidney.

            Think it but a minute spent in sport. --Shak.

   2. Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.

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

   3. That with which one plays, or which is driven about in
      play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.

            Flitting leaves, the sport of every wind. --Dryden.

            Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than
            when he is the sport of his own ungoverned pasions.
                                                  --John Clarke.

   4. Play; idle jingle.

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

   5. Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing,
      racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.

   6. (Bot. & Zo["o]l.) 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. See {Sporting
      plant}, under {Sporting}.

   7. A sportsman; a gambler. [Slang]

   {In sport}, in jest; for play or diversion. ``So is the man
      that deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in
      sport?'' --Prov. xxvi. 19.

   Syn: Play; game; diversion; frolic; mirth; mock; mockery;
        jeer.