sportive
IPA: spˈɔrtɪv
noun
- (cycling) Synonym of cyclosportive
adjective
- (archaic) lively; merry; spritely
- Playful, coltish.
- Interested in sport.
- Sporty, good at sport.
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Examples of "sportive" in Sentences
- I like to watch sportive games.
- It was elected the most sportive town in France in 2001.
- Family Lepilemuridae consists solely of the sportive lemurs.
- Despite the sportive car image, the engine remained the same.
- The 400 m setting has a removable iris for sportive shooting.
- In sportive shooting,he was Champion of Bolivia and Panamerica.
- It will probably do the trick and we'll have our sportive award.
- I'm posting here the new sportive award as it was chosen by the community.
- Further an advocate has to be sportive that is accepts any result of the cases.
- Born in Richton, Mississippi, as the ninth of ten children to a sportive family.
- Abbey of Thélème, -- a kind of sportive Brook Farm set far away in a world unrealized.
- William was a kind-hearted, "sportive" man, who took _Bell's Life_, and I can remember that there was a good supply of English reading in the house.
- It originated in sportive conversation at poor Lovell's, and we agreed each to produce an act by the next evening; – S.T.C. the first, I the second, and Lovell the third.
- It originated in sportive conversation at poor Lovell's, and we agreed each to produce an act by the next evening; — S.T.C. the first, I the second, and Lovell the third.
- Examples of this kind of sportive irreverence are common enough; their root is in human nature: and they could not be absent in the mythology of savage or of ancient peoples.
- She had left a snuff-box of considerable value with me, which I had forgotten to return; and, with that kind of sportive cheerfulness which I rather encourage than repress, I called -- 'Here!
- In sentimental conversation, subjects interesting to the heart, and to the imagination, are brought forward; they are discussed in a kind of sportive way, with animation and refinement, and are never continued longer than politeness allows.
- It takes its name from the frolicsome spirit supposed to be imparted by it to its imbibers, whose gambols remind the observant Teuton of those of the bock, or goat, a figure of which animal, engaged in sportive dalliance with a beer cask, is usually to be seen as a sign in places where this brewage is on tap.
- Just outside the mountain town of Vicdessos, the "Station Sports Nature de Montcalm" offers guided circuits graded in difficulty and suitable for children from seven years old (montcalm-aventure. com), though the Ariège's wildest Via Ferrata, described as "sportive" requires a four-hour trek up to the Refuge d'Estagnous (ariege. com / refuge-estagnous).