Of, pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sports; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports, one who practices field sports; also, a horse racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like, exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play, verb_ Present participle of sport, noun_ A sport; a game; specifically, participation in horse-racing, sports of the field, etc.; sports collectively, with all the interests involved in them, In zoology and botany, spontaneous origination of new and singular characters; the appearance of a sport, or the assumption of that character by an individual animal or plant. See sport, v. i., 3, and n., 8