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Definition 2025
Sports
sports
sports
See also: Sports
English
Noun
sports
- plural of sport
Derived terms
sport plural
Verb
sports
- third-person singular simple present indicative form of sport
Verb
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.
- There's a lot of sportsing happening in Brazil this summer. [said of the 2014 FIFA World Cup]
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Latvian
Sports (Rīgas maratons)
Etymology
Probably via other European languages, ultimately a borrowing from English sport.
Noun
sports m (1st declension)
- sport, sports
- nodarboties ar sportu ― to occupy oneself with, to practice sports
- sporta veidi ― (types of) sports
- sporta būve / sporta bāze ― gymnasium, sports facility
- sporta skola ― sports school
- sporta medicīna ― sports medicine
- sporta meistars ― sports master
- cīņas sports ― martial arts (lit. fighting sports)
- slēpošana ir patīkams sports' ― skiing is an enjoyable sport
- activity about which one is passionate
- sēņošana viņam ir sports ― mushroom picking is a sport to him
Declension
Declension of sports (1st declension)
| singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (nominatīvs) | sports | — |
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | sportu | — |
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | sporta | — |
| dative (datīvs) | sportam | — |
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | sportu | — |
| locative (lokatīvs) | sportā | — |
| vocative (vokatīvs) | sport | — |
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