Definitions for sporter

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sporter sport·er

Spelling: [spawr-ter, spohr-]

IPA: /ˈspɔr tər, ˈspoʊr-/

Sporter is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 213 anagrams from letters in sporter (eoprrst).

Definitions for sporter

noun

1. a person or thing that sports, as a participant in a sport.
2. an animal or piece of equipment for use in a sport, as a hunting dog or rifle.
3. an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
4. a particular form of this, especially in the out of doors.
5. sports, (used with a singular verb) such athletic activities collectively:
6. diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime.
7. jest; fun; mirth; pleasantry:
8. mockery; ridicule; derision:
9. an object of derision; laughingstock.
10. something treated lightly or tossed about like a plaything.
11. something or someone subject to the whims or vicissitudes of fate, circumstances, etc.
12. a sportsman.
13. Informal. a person who behaves in a sportsmanlike, fair, or admirable manner; an accommodating person:
14. Informal. a person who is interested in sports as an occasion for gambling; gambler.
15. Informal. a flashy person; one who wears showy clothes, affects smart manners, pursues pleasurable pastimes, or the like; a bon vivant.
16. Biology. an organism or part that shows an unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; mutation.
17. Obsolete. amorous dalliance.

Idioms

1. sport one's oak. oak (def 5).

adjective

1. of, relating to, or used in sports or a particular sport:
2. suitable for outdoor or informal wear:

verb (used with object)

1. to pass (time) in amusement or sport.
2. to spend or squander lightly or recklessly (often followed by away).
3. Informal. to wear, display, carry, etc., especially with ostentation; show off:
4. Archaic. to amuse (especially oneself).

verb (used without object)

1. to amuse oneself with some pleasant pastime or recreation.
2. to play, frolic, or gambol, as a child or an animal.
3. to engage in some open-air or athletic pastime or sport.
4. to trifle or treat lightly:
5. to mock, scoff, or tease:
6. Botany. to mutate.

Origin of sporter

First recorded in 1530-40; sport + -er¹

Examples for sporter

Here are the keys to that daffodil-hued tri-phibian you ogled at sporter's exhibit.

But Caswell was an old Crimea veteran; his face had been spiled by a powder explosion; but he certainly was a sporter!