Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sportive"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sportive \Sport"ive\, a.
Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay;
froliscome; playful; merry.
Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court?
--Shak.
-- {Sport"ive*ly}, adv. -- {Sport"ive*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sportive
adj 1: relating to or interested in sports
2: given to merry frolicking; "frolicsome students celebrated
their graduation with parties and practical jokes" [syn: {coltish},
{frolicsome}, {frolicky}, {rollicking}]
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