sport.

The multitude received both bands with the same general shout with which on similar occasions they welcome those from whose exertion they expect amusement, or what they term sport.

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

Boys sometimes can be more or less thoughtless, and even cruel when engaged in what they term sport.

Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School Allen Chapman

The multitude received both bands with the same general shout with which on similar occasions they welcome those from whose exertion they expect amusement, or what they term sport.

The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801

To gentlemen of fortunes and estates, who being born to large possessions, and have no avocations of this kind, it is certainly lawful to spend their spare hours on horseback, with their hounds or hawks, pursuing their game; or, on foot, with their gun and their net, and their dogs to kill the hares or birds, &c. -- all which we call sport.

The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) Daniel Defoe 1696

Consequently, I was not to be taken in like Jackson by made-up faces, trashy pictures, drawling and lounging and strutting and tailoring, drawing-room singing and drawing-room dancing, any more than by bad ventilation and unwholesome hours and food, not to mention polite dram drinking, and the round of cruelties they call sport.

The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage George Bernard Shaw 1903

You will be led to conclude that you are observing a sudden change in structure such as is usually called a sport.

Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

Now, a seasoned veteran, Sciullo said it takes a lot of time and training to get into competitive eating, something he classifies as a sport.

Heraldstandard.com: Home RSS feed 2010

But the chiefs still practised the old ways, the custom of hunakele, and hid the bones of the aliis where no men should find them and make fish-hooks of their jaws or arrow heads of their long bones for the slaying of little mice in sport.

THE BONES OF KAHEKILI 2010

I was scarcely hid, when a young girl came running towards the spot where I was concealed, laughing, as if she ran from some one in sport.

Chapter 16 2010

Obviously Jerry Jones is not literally the worst owner in sport.

Gang Green grrm 2010