sportive

• Most martial arts are largely sportive, and that includes Taekwondo, most forms of Karate, all competitive mixed martial arts, wrestling, fencing, Brazilian jujitsu, etc. —  SF Signal
• There are two other kinds of letters which give me great pleasure: the familiar and sportive, and the grave and serious. —  The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order
• Mr. Halleck's poetry is carefully finished and musical; much of it is sportive, and some satirical. —  McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader
• The whole, like a vast school broke loose for a holiday; the most joyous, sportive, and certainly the most showy display that had ever caught my eye. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844
• The dresses of the women were as superb as if they had never known fear or flight; and the conversation was as light, sportive, and badinant_, as if we were all waiting in the antechamber of Versailles till the chamberlain of Marie Antoinette should signify the royal pleasure to receive us. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843

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