Sported

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sport \Sport\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sported}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Sporting}.]
     1. To play; to frolic; to wanton.
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              [Fish], sporting with quick glance,


              Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold.
                                                    --Milton.
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     2. To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be
        given to betting, as upon races.
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     3. To trifle. "He sports with his own life." --Tillotson.
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     4. (Bot. & Zool.) To assume suddenly a new and different
        character from the rest of the plant or from the type of
        the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
        See {Sport}, n., 6. --Darwin.
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     Syn: To play; frolic; game; wanton.
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