different between pastime vs sports

English

Alternative forms

• passtime, pass-time (both obsolete)

Etymology

From earlier passtime, pass-time, from Middle English passe tyme, passetyme, calque of Middle French passetemps.

Pronunciation

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /?pæs.ta?m/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??s.ta?m/

Noun

pastime (plural pastimes)

1. Something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably.

   Synonyms: kill-time; see also Thesaurus:hobby

Translations

Further reading

• pastime in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Verb

pastime (third-person singular simple present pastimes, present participle pastiming, simple past and past participle pastimed)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) to sport; to amuse oneself

Derived terms

• pastimer
• pastiming

Anagrams

• impaste, site map, sitemap

English

Etymology

sport +? -s

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /sp??ts/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sp??ts/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /spo(?)?ts/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /spo?ts/
• Rhymes: -??(?)ts

Noun

sports

1. plural of sport

Synonyms

• athletics

Derived terms

Verb

sports

1. 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)

1. To participate in sports; typically used by a person with little interest in the subject to derisively elide details of the activity in question.

Anagrams

• Prosts, strops

French

Pronunciation

Noun

sports m

1. plural of sport

Latvian

Etymology

Probably via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from English sport.

Pronunciation

Noun

sports m (1st declension)

1. sport, sports

2. activity about which one is passionate

Declension

Derived terms

• orient?šan?s sports
• sportisks, sportiskums
• sportists, sportiste

Swedish

Verb

sports

1. supine passive of spörja.

Anagrams

• prosts