Synonym: amusement, contest, fun, game, play. Antonym: work. Similar words: passport, transport, transportable, transportation, active transport, sporadic, diaspora, port. Meaning: [spɔrt /spɔːt] 
n. 1. an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition 2. the occupation of athletes who compete for pay 3. (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine 4. a person known for the way she (or he) behaves when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances 5. someone who engages in sports 6. (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration 7. verbal wit or mockery (often at another’s expense but not to be taken seriously). v. 1. wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner 2. play boisterously.
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1) War is the sport of kings. 
2) Sport is sweetest when there be no spectators.
3) My son has no/little aptitude for sport.
4) Winning is not the prime objective in this sport.
5) He was always rather inept at sport.
6) Learning is not a spectator sport.
7) Sport provided an outlet for his energy.
Sport is being debased by commercialism.
9) In theory,(http://sentencedict.com/sport.html) basketball is a non-contact sport.
10) sailing is a wonderful sport.
11) There’ll be some sport reviews on TV.
12) We entered into the sport with zest.
13) Success in sport is a source of national pride.
14) There are excellent facilities for sport and recreation.
15) There are dangers/risks inherent in almost every sport.
16) The most popular spectator sport is football.
17) Sport became the perfect outlet for his aggression.
18) Watching sport gave him great pleasure.
19) Hunting foxes is a peculiarly English sport.
20) She plays a lot of sport.
21) Gymnastics is his favourite sport.
22) Complete absorption in sport will interfere with your studies.
23) He quit the sport when he realised he didn’t have the killer instinct.
24) You should try and find time to sport with your little baby.
25) It remains true that sport is about competing well, not winning.
26) The use of drugs is bringing the sport into disrepute.
27) You spend a disproportionate amount of your time on sport.
28) Schools tend to perpetuate the myth that boys are better at sport than girls.
29) British culture now appears to revolve around the unholy trinity of sport, shopping and sex.
30) The ANC are attacking rugby because it is the soft underbelly of South African sport.
More similar words: passport, transport, transportable, transportation, active transport, sporadic, diaspora, port, sporadically, deport, report, import, export, support, rapport, portray, airport, portend, portion, portiere, supporter, reporter, portable, report on, portrait, reporting, supportive, important, importune, portfolio.
Examples of how to use the word “sport” in a sentence. How to connect “sport” with other words to make correct English sentences.
sport (n): a game, competition, or activity needing physical effort and skill that is played or done according to rules, for enjoyment and/or as a job
Use “sport” in a sentence
| Our university has excellent sports facilities. |
| I always read the sports section first. |
| What’s your favorite sport? |
| I’m not interested in sport. |
| Soccer is the most popular sport in Brazil.
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- Sports are games such as football and basketball and other competitive leisure activities which need physical effort and skill.
- Sports reduce stress and improve concentration.
- Sport brings positive energy, discipline, and helps in building self-esteem and mutual respect.
- Playing sports is a favorite activity and stress relief for many people around the world.
- Physical activity helps lower the risk of heart attacks.
- Playing sports increases sweat production and removes toxins.
- Sports and other forms of physical activity improve the quality of sleep.
- Sport can help you reach your fitness goals and maintain a healthy weight.
- Sport helps develop teamwork and leadership skills.
- Teamwork is key to success. In sports, you have to collaborate with other team members to win.
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- Спорт — это такие игры, как футбол и баскетбол, а также другие соревновательные виды досуга, которые требуют физических усилий и навыков.
- Спорт уменьшает стресс и улучшает концентрацию.
- Спорт приносит позитивную энергию, дисциплину и развивает самооценку и взаимоуважение.
- Занятия спортом — любимое занятие и снятие стресса для многих людей во всем мире.
- Физическая активность помогает снизить риск сердечных приступов.
- Занятия спортом увеличивают выработку пота и выводят токсины.
- Спорт и другие виды физической активности улучшают качество сна.
- Спорт может помочь вам достичь ваших целей в фитнесе и поддерживать здоровый вес.
- Занятия спортом помогают развивать командную работу и лидерские качества.
- Работа в команде — это ключ к успеху. В спорте вы должны сотрудничать с другими членами команды, чтобы победить.
Sentences using the word sport. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use sport in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for sport.
- Be a sport! (8)
- Sport, I grant ye. (10)
- Sport, I grant ye. (22)
- It was pure sport. (8)
- Why, the sport is but just begun. (4)
- Indeed, scepticism poisoned the sport. (10)
- It was sport to see him and Jackson get together. (13)
- My failure is, perhaps, too great a passion for sport, aha! (10)
- Now, of a sudden, it is deprived of that stimulating sport. (16)
- But, after all, what religion knits people so closely as a common sport? (2)
- Here, indeed, was sport royal, and the plain people took to it with avidity. (16)
- We have let the blunderers and the waves Divide us, and the devil had sport. (10)
- Gangs from the metropolis found him too determined and alert for their sport. (10)
- I shall not sport with your impatience, by reading what he says on that point. (4)
- Their hero, when they have done their fighting, is the wealthy patron of Sport. (10)
- They had taken out a young dog, who had spoilt their sport, and sent them back early. (4)
- And Shelton was compelled to help in carrying on this sport till early in the morning. (8)
- Tolerable sport the first three days, but there has been no attempting anything since. (4)
- In both forms of sport the balance was preserved which keeps a man both sound and young. (8)
- But I was the sport of resentments and apprehensions; and, indeed, I should not have gone. (10)
- This was a device, I suppose, to sport with my curiosity, and exercise my talent of guessing. (4)
- There must be lumber and, I suppose, sport, but some things one could wish were ordered otherwise. (7)
- The young people, whose sport had been interrupted, had recovered from their fright and joined in a long chain. (5)
- The phantasmic groupings of the young brain are very like those we see in the skies, and equally the sport of the wind. (10)
- It will give admirable opportunities to eminent counsel, excellent reading to the general public, first-rate sport all round. (8)
- Cecil was a fine shot, quite as fond of the pastime as his uncle, and always in favour with him while sport stalked the land. (10)
- When he found that Westover cared for nothing in the way of sport, as people commonly understand it, he did not openly contemn him. (9)
- But here is the place of broken ground and tangle, which calls to honourable men, not bent on sport, to be wary to guard the gunlock. (10)
- When the city editor makes sport of the ill-printed country paper, he forgets under what conditions the country editor at times works. (16)
- As it was, he did nothing with much zeal, but sport; and his time was otherwise trifled away, without benefit from books or anything else. (4)
- This was not hard for a man given to mountain-climbing, almost the only sport left to one who thought it immoral to hurt anybody but himself. (8)
- Red the far summit flames with morn, While in the plain a glistening Court Surrounds the king who practised scorn Through such a mask of sport. (10)
- Peter did most of the open talking, which related to horses, yachting, opera, and sport generally: who was ruined; by what horse, or by what woman. (10)
- Sharp it throws out an emerald shoulder, And, thundering ever of the mountain, Slaps in sport some giant boulder, And tops it in a silver fountain. (10)
- Always rather elusive in his movements, he was now too elusive altogether for those who had been accustomed to lunch, dine, dance, and sport with him. (8)
- When asleep she was the sport of elves that danced her into tangles too deliciously unravelled, and left new problems for the wise-eyed and anxious morning. (10)
Also see sentences for: amusement, caper, diversion, frolic, fun, game, pastime.
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Предлагаю вам небольшую подборку заданий и упражнений по теме СПОРТ на английском языке. Данные упражнения помогут вам закрепить лексику по теме SPORT, а также отработать некоторые грамматические навыки.
- Лексические упражнения по теме спорт.
- Грамматические упражнения по теме спорт.
- Ответы к упражнениям.
Лексические упражнения по теме спорт.
Упражнение 1. Заполните таблицу следующими видами спорта. Решите, какие виды спорта употребляются со словами PLAY, GO и DO.
Football, boxing, golf, karate, skiing, rugby, table tennis, volleyball, basketball, gymnastics, yoga, swimming, hockey, running, judo, soccer, bowling, dancing, cycling, chess
Упражнение 2. Угадайте, какой это вид спорта
- Each team has eleven players. The players of the two teams wear clothes of different colors. Only the goalkeeper can touch the ball with the hands.
- Each team has up to eleven players, but only seven of them can play at the same time. The players have caps on. They mustn’t splash water into the face of opponent.
- Each team has six players on the court. The player can hit the ball with the hand. She/he has to release the ball before hitting it. The players are not allowed to touch the net.
- It is a team sport. Each team has up to ten players, but only five of them can play at the same time. The players must try for a goal within 30 seconds of possessing the ball.
- Each team can have up to seventeen players, but only six can play at the same time. Players wear skates and helmets.
Упражнение 3. Заполните таблицу следующими видами спорта.
golf / basketball / diving / swimming / wrestling / skiing / football / karate / gymnastics / cricket / weight lifting / running / volleyball / horse riding / handball / boxing / tennis / water polo / table tennis / judo
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Played/done Individually |
Played in pairs |
Played in Teams |
Упражнение 4. Определите, что это за вид спорта. Подсказки – в рамке.
High-jump / karate / football / basketball / ice-hockey / boxing / golf / skiing / diving / tennis
- The sport of moving over snow on skis.
- The sport of jumping into water or swimming under water.
- The sport of fighting with your hands, wearing thick gloves.
- A game for two teams of eleven players who try to kick a ball into a goal on a field.
- A game for two or four players who hold rackets and hit a small ball over a net.
- A Japanese sport where people fight with their hands and feet.
- A game that two teams play on ice.
- A sport where people jump over a high bar.
- A game that you play by hitting a small ball into holes with a club.
- A game for two teams of five players who try to throw a ball into a high net ring.
Упражнение 5. Соедините виды спорта и места, где занимаются данным видом спорта
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1. swimming 2. boxing / wrestling 3. tennis / basketball / volleyball 4. football / hockey / rugby 5. athletics / motor racing 6. ice hockey / skating 7. bowling 8. golf |
A. a rink B. a court C. a pool D. a ring E. a track F. a pitch G. a course H. an alley |
Упражнение 6. В каком из этих видов спорта используется данный спортинвентарь.
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1. a puck 2. a racket 3. a goal 4. a shuttlecock 5. clubs 6. a net 7. a stick 8. a bat |
A. badminton B. golf C. ice hockey D. football / hockey E. tennis / volleyball F. hockey / ice hockey G. baseball H. tennis / badminton |
Упражнение 7. Дополните текст подходящим по смыслу словом из рамки
pools / courts / stadium / rink / athletes / jumping / track / pitches / rings
Nick James is very happy because there is a big sports center near his home. There are football (1) _______, tennis and basketball (2) ________, swimming (3) _______, a sports hall with two boxing (4) ______ and even a skating (5) _______. There is also a separate athletics (6) _______, where 30 000 spectators can watch track events on the (7) _____ and field events, such as (8) ________and throwing, in the grass center. The (9) _______ get ready in modern changing rooms. A huge scoreboard shows the results.
Nick often attends sports events. He also goes swimming three times a week and hopes to succeed in this sport.
Грамматические упражнения по теме спорт.
Упражнение 1. Раскройте скобки. Вставьте глагол в Present Simple. Прочитайте и переведите текст.
Alex 1___________ (to have) many hobbies. The boy 2____________ (to like) doing sports. He 3______________ (to play) soccer. He 4 _______ (to be) a forward in his team. Alex and his friends 5_____________ (to play) baseball. Alex 6___________ (to throw) balls. He 7________ (to be) a pitcher. His friend John 8______________ (to catch) balls. John 9___________ (to be) a catcher. Every summer the friends 10___________ (to wait) for a baseball tournament. The tournament 11 _________ (to be) in June. Sometimes Alex and his friends 12__________ (to go) in for mountaineering. They 13_____________ (to climb) mountains and rocks. It 14________ (to be) a risky but interesting sport. Alex 15__________ (to use) special ropes when he 16_____________ (to climb) a rock.
Упражнение 2. Вставьте подходящие предлоги: for / on / of / at / in / between
- Kate is not very good _____ skiing.
- The match was ________ Wales and Scotland.
- There was a crowd ____ 40 000 ______ the stadium.
- Which team does he play_____?
- A runner-up comes second ______a race or competition.
- You use golf club to play golf ____a golf course.
- She’s the best player ______ the team.
- The result _____the football match was a 1:1 draw.
Упражнение 3. Раскройте скобки, корректно образуя степень сравнения прилагательного.
- Mary is _________ (tall) girl in her volleyball team.
- Do you really think that Tina is _______ (fast) than Sandra?
- John’s results in tennis are getting ________ (good) and ______ (good).
- This exercise is very ____________ (difficult).
- Our PE teacher is __________ (strong) of all our teachers.
Ответы к лексическим упражнениям.
Упражнение 1.
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PLAY |
GO |
DO |
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Football Golf Rugby Table tennis Volleyball Basketball Hockey Soccer Chess |
Skiing Swimming Running Bowling Dancing Cycling |
Boxing Karate Gymnastics Yoga Judo |
Упражнение 2.
1 – football, 2 — water polo, 3 — volleyball, 4 – volleyball, 5 — hockey
Упражнение 3
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individually |
in pairs |
in teams |
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golf diving swimming skiing gymnastics weight lifting running horse riding |
wrestling karate boxing tennis table tennis judo |
basketball football cricket volleyball handball water polo |
Упражнение 4.
- Skiing
- Diving
- Boxing
- Football
- Tennis
- Karate
- Ice-hockey
- High-jump
- Golf
- Basketball
Упражнение 5.
1 – С, 2 – D, 3 – B, 4 – F, 5 – E, 6 – A, 7 – H, 8 – G.
Упражнение 6.
1 – F, 2 – H, 3 — D, 4 – A, 5 – B, 6 – E, 7 -F , 8 – G
Упражнение 7.
1 pitches, 2 courts, 3 pools, 4 rings, 5 rink, 6 track, 7 stadium, 8 jumping, 9 athletes
Ответы к грамматическим упражнениям.
Упражнение 1.
1 has, 2 likes, 3 plays, 4 is, 5 play, 6 throws, 7 is, 8 catches, 9 is, 10 wait, 11 is, 12 go, 13 climb, 14 is, 15 uses, 16 climbs
Упражнение 2.
1 at, 2 between, 3 of / at (in also possible), 4 for, 5 in, 6 on, 7 in (of also possible), 8 of
Упражнение 3.
1 the tallest
2 faster
3 better and better
4 difficult
5 the strongest
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