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[ UK /dɪspˈɔːt/ ]
VERB
  1. occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion
    The play amused the ladies
  2. play boisterously
    the gamboling lambs in the meadows
    The toddlers romped in the playroom
    The children frolicked in the garden

How To Use disport In A Sentence

  • This policeman has an insatiable desire for disport, so he rides this small bike in no time when he sees it.
  • He stands on two legs, beats a big drum with a stick held in his trunk and disports himself with the grave grace one always admires in these imposing creatures.
  • There is the trichina spiralis, which really exists, although the German pork-butchers denounce the story as a "pig lie;" the ordinary intestinal worm, which disports itself, eel-like, in the Alimentary Canal; and the tape worm, of two varieties, one of which performs its circumlocutory antics in the human stomach, and the other in the government Bureaux at Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870
  • Not far from Malbaie, he saw the so-called "porpoises," or white whales, (beluga, French, _marsouin_) that still disport themselves in great numbers in these waters, come puffing to the surface and writhe their whole length into view like miniature sea-serpents. A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861
  • Recently two whales were disporting themselves in the balmy early spring waters of Sydney Harbour.
  • Twisting he-men disport around the thick trunk of a phallic tree.
  • The antelope-eyed couples disporting themselves with such abandon represent both a physical and a religious ideal.
  • We disported ourselves to our heart's content.
  • The Judies were disporting themselves at one of their weird games. The White Feather
  • Youth, in a bright-haired, black-winged-butterfly swarm, streams out of every dark doorway, from the austere shade of study, to disport itself, two by two, or in larger eddying groups, upon the worn gravel, even venturously flits across the sacred green of the turf. The Invader A Novel
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