1. sports - Noun
2. sports - Verb
sports
plural of sport
sports pl (plural only)
Canada, US standard spelling of sport., the class of physical activies
sports
third-person singular simple present indicative of sport
sports (third-person singular simple present sportses, present participle sportsing, simple past and past participle sportsed)
To participate in sports; typically used by a person with little interest in the subject to derisively elide details of the activity in question.
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. Michel de Montaigne
I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures. Earl Warren
Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking. Vasily Klyuchevsky
To me, torture would be watching sports on television. Quentin Tarantino
All sports for all people. Pierre de Coubertin
There is no beast so savage but sports with its mate. Spanish Proverb