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sportsmanship

noun

Etymology

From sports + -manship.

  1. derived from *per-✻ — “to lead, pass over”
  2. derived from deportāre
  3. derived from portāre
  4. derived from dis-
  5. derived from desporter — “to divert, amuse, please, play; to seek amusement”
  6. inherited from sporten — “to divert, disport”
  7. formed as sports — “sport + -s”
  8. suffixed as sportsmanship — “sports + manship”

Definitions

  1. The good attitude/behaviour displayed by players of a game

    The good attitude/behaviour displayed by players of a game; fairness, determination, magnanimity, courtesy towards opponents, and winning or losing gracefully.

  2. The behaviour exhibited in playing sports, either good or bad.

    • James showed good sportsmanship in consoling Shankar after his wicket fell.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sportsmanship. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at sportsmanship. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at sportsmanship

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA