besport

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verb

To sport; to play.

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Meanings

verbbesport (third-person singular simple present besports, present participle besporting, simple past and past participle besported)

present singular third person besports · participle present besporting · participle past besported · past besported

  1. archaicreflexiveTo sport; to play.

    If you walk up Trumpington Street or King's Parade on Sunday, you are "cut" or "stared out" by your shoe-black, who is besporting himself on that "fashionable promenade" amongst the snobs and snobesses, arrayed in the last best coat which he stole from your wardrobe.

    1839, The Carthusian: A Miscellany in Prose and Verse (volume 2, page 282)

Origin

be- + sport

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Anagrams

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APA

besport. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/besport

MLA

“besport.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/besport. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “besport,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/besport.

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