sportive

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

sportive
    adj 1: relating to or interested in sports
    2: given to merry frolicking; "frolicsome students celebrated
       their graduation with parties and practical jokes" [syn:
       {coltish}, {frolicsome}, {frolicky}, {rollicking},
       {sportive}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Sportive \Sport"ive\ (-[i^]v), a.
   Tending to, engaged in, or provocative of, sport; gay;
   frolicsome; playful; merry.
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         Is it I
         That drive thee from the sportive court? --Shak.
   [1913 Webster] -- {Sport"ive*ly}, adv. -- {Sport"ive*ness},
   n.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

55 Moby Thesaurus words for "sportive":
      animated, antic, arch, blithe, buoyant, capering, capersome,
      cavorting, coltish, devilish, elfish, elvish, exuberant, foolish,
      frisky, frolicsome, full of beans, full of mischief, gamesome, gay,
      gleeful, hearty, high-spirited, impish, kittenish, knavish,
      larkish, light-hearted, lively, merry, mischief-loving,
      mischievous, playful, prankish, pranksome, pranky, puckish,
      roguish, rollicking, rollicksome, rompish, scampish, scapegrace,
      skittish, spirited, sportful, sprightly, trickish, tricksy, tricky,
      vital, vivacious, waggish, zestful, zippy

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