sport

n

1. game, contest, tournament, competition, athletic event; athletics, sports, exercise.

2. recreation, play, pastime, amusement, entertainment; diversion, divertissement, distraction, relaxation; pleasure, enjoyment, delight, gaiety, cheer, good fun, Brit. beer and skittles, Inf. fun and games, Sl. jollies; merriment, merrymaking, revelry, jollification, joviality, Inf. whoopee; tomfoolery, skylarking, Sl. monkey business, Sl. high jinks, antics.

3. fun, jest, jesting, joke, joking, waggery, drollery, mirth; trifling, badinage, banter, raillery, persiflage; ridicule, mockery, scoffing, derision, insult, slur, disparagement, detraction.

4. laughingstock, gazingstock, byword, butt, fool, everybody's fool, ass, fair game, Inf. goat, Brit. Sl. mug; dupe, gudgeon, Brit. Dial. cull, Archaic. cully, Inf. chump, Sl. sap, Sl. schnook, Sl. schlemiel, Sl. boob; greenhorn, sitting duck, easy or soft mark, easy-or soft target, Inf. sucker, Inf. cinch, Sl. patsy, U.S. Sl. fall guy, Sl. softie, Sl. soft touch, Sl. pushover; victim, pawn, puppet, tool, instrument, cat's-paw, creature, minion, dummy, Sl. stooge.

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5. amuse onself, have fun, while away time, play, disport; frolic, frisk, gambol, skip, trip, dance about, jump about, romp, rollick, lark; cavort, caper, cut capers, curvet; have a good time or a good old time, make merry, revel, carouse, wassail, roister, whoop it up, Inf. make whoopee.

6. dally, trifle, toy, treat lightly, make light with; potter, putter, smatter, tinker, fiddle, tamper with, Inf. fool with; play upon, take advantage of.

7. clown, clown around, play the clown; horse around, fool around, kid around, Inf. cut up; joke, jest, fool, tease, Inf. josh, Inf. kid, Inf. put [s.o.] on, Inf. pull [s.o.'s] leg; banter, chaff, poke fun at, rally, twit; taunt, jeer, gibe, mock, ridicule, make fun of, laugh at; satirize, lampoon, parody, caricature, travesty, burlesque, Inf. roast; scoff at, fleer, scout, flout, deride, disparage.

8.Informal. show off, show, display, exhibit, wear.