- sportive
- adj1. playful, gamesome, (in musical directions) scherzando; frolicsome, full of fun, fun-loving; spirited, high-spirited, frisky, coltish, skittish, Inf. full of beans, Inf. feeling one's oats; kittenish, romping; sprightly, lively, jaunty, debonair; sparkling, buoyant, light-hearted, airy, blithe, blithesome, whimsical; merry, gay, sunny, riant, cheerful, gleeful, jocular, jocose, jovial; jesting, joking, full of mischief, mischievous, scampish, devilish, impish, elfish; waggish, prankish, tricksy.2. athletic, gymnastic, acrobatic, Gk. Antig. agonistic, Gk. Antiq. palaestral.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.