sports
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 6
/spɔːts/
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/spɔːts/ · /spɔɹts/ · /spo(ː)ɹts/ · /spoəts/
Definition of sports
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (form-of, plural)plural of sport
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noun
- (form-of, plural)plural of sport
- (uncountable)Synonym of sport (“the class of physical activies; athletics”).
verb
- (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of sport
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To participate in sports; typically used by a person with little interest in the subject to derisively elide details of the activity in question.
“But I have a feeling that in many senses the American consumer is getting over-sportsed.”
“And so sports they did! They put on their very own athletic shorts and jerseys and headed down to the field. There, they met other people similarly attired, who also desired to sports with them. And so they sportsed.”
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Etymology
From sport + -s.
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