1. [n]  an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
2. [n]  the occupation of athletes who compete for pay
3. [n]  verbal wit (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously); "he became a figure of fun"
4. [n]  (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
5. [n]  someone who engages in sports
6. [adj]  (Maine colloquial) temporary summer resident in inland Maine
7. [v]  play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the palyroom"
8. [v]  wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she was sporting a new hat"

Sport
This novel featuring characters from the book HARRIET THE SPY focuses on Harriet`s friend Sport. Sport`s life changes when his grandfather dies and he inherits a huge fortune. The fact that her son is now a multimillionaire brings about the return of Sport`s greedy mother--who kidnaps him in the hopes of getting her hands on his money.

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1. \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.
   

2. \Sport\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sported}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Sporting}.]
   1. To play; to frolic; to wanton.
            [Fish], sporting with quick glance, Show to the sun
            their waved coats dropt with gold.    --Milton.
   2. To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be
      given to betting, as upon races.
   3. To trifle. ``He sports with his own life.'' --Tillotson.
   4. (Bot. & Zo["o]l.) To assume suddenly a new and different
      character from the rest of the plant or from the type of
      the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
      See {Sport}, n., 6. --Darwin.
   Syn: To play; frolic; game; wanton.
   

3. \Sport\, v. t.
   1. To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the
      reciprocal pronoun.
            Against whom do ye sport yourselves?  --Isa. lvii.
                                                  4.
   2. To represent by any knd of play.
            Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth.
                                                  --Dryden.
   3. To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as,
      to sport a new equipage. [Colloq.] --Grose.
   4. To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in
      an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off
      epigrams. --Addison.
   {To sport one's oak}. See under {Oak}, n.