Sport

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sport"

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English sport, 19th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃpɔrt/, [ʃpɔʁt], [ʃpɔɐ̯t], [ʃpɔːt], (northern Germany, now rare) /sp-/

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Noun

Sport m (strong, genitive Sports or Sportes, plural (rare) Sporte)

1. sport (athletic activity that uses physical skills competitively under a set of rules)
2. athletics, sports, exercise (physical activities (not necessarily with fixed rules) requiring stamina, fitness and skill)
3. physical education, phys ed (element of an educational curriculum concerned with bodily development, physical health etc.)

Usage notes

• The German word is chiefly uncountable. In a phrase like “I do lots of sports”, the singular is used: Ich mache viel Sport. For “different kinds of sports”, one says Sportarten. The plural form Sporte is attestable, but unusual.

Declension

Declension of Sport [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Sport	die	Sporte
genitive	eines	des	Sports, Sportes	der	Sporte
dative	einem	dem	Sport, Sporte1	den	Sporten
accusative	einen	den	Sport	die	Sporte

¹Now rare, see notes.

Hyponyms

• Alpinsport (“Alpine skiing sport”)
• Amateursport (“amateur sport”)
• Angelsport (“fishing, angling”) (competitively)
• Autosport (“motorsport”)
• Ballsport (“ball sports”)
• Bewegungssport (“exercise sport”)
• Breitensport (“mass sport”)
• Eisslaufsport (“iceskating”) (as a sport)
• Eisstocksport
• Flugsport (“sport aviation, pleasure flying”)
• Frauensport (“women's sport, women's sports”)
• Fußballsport (“soccer, football”) (sport emphasized)
• Hallensport (“indoor sports”)
• Individualsport (“individual sport”)
• Jagdsport (“hunting”) (as a sport)
• Judosport (“judo”) (as a sport)
• Jugendsport (“youth sport”)
• Kampfsport
• Laufsport (“running”) (competitively)
• Leistungssport
• Mannschaftssport (“team sport”)
• Motorsport
• Profisport (“professional sports”)
• Radsport
• Rasensport (“lawn sports, grass sports”)
• Reitsport (“equestrian sport, competitive horseback-riding”)
• Schießsport (“shooting”) (as a sport)
• Schneesport (“snowsports, snow sport”)
• Spitzensport (“elite sport, top-class sport”)
• Taubensport (“pigeon racing”)
• Vereinssport (“sports club; club sports”)
• Volkssport (“national sport”)
• Wassersport (“water sport, water sports”)
• Wintersport (“winter sport, winter sports”)

Derived terms

• sportlich
• sportiv
• Sportler

• Altensport (“elderly sports or fitness activities”)
• Betriebssport (“after-work sport facilitated by a company”)
• Denksport (“mental exercise”)
• Frühsport
• Seniorensport (“senior sports”)
• Sitzsport
• Sportanzug
• Sportart
• Sportartikel
• Sportarzt
• Sportbahn
• Sportbegeisterter
• Sportbekleidung
• sportbesessen
• Sportblessur
• Sportclub
• Sportereignis
• Sportfan
• Sportgerät
• Sportgeschäft
• Sporthalle
• Sportherz
• Sportjugend
• Sportklub
• Sportladen
• sportliebend
• Sportliebhaber
• Sportmannschaft
• Sportmedizin
• Sportmittel
• Sportmuffel
• Sportplatz
• Sportschau
• Sportschütze
• Sportsendung
• Sportsitz
• Sportskanone
• Sportstunde
• Sporttermin
• sporttreibend
• Sporttreibender
• Sportunfall
• Sportveranstaltung
• Sportverband
• Sportverein
• Sportvereinigung
• Sportvergnügen
• Sportverletzung
• Sportwagen
• Sportwettkampf
• Sportzeitschrift
• Sportzuschauer

Descendants

• → Estonian: sport
• → Hungarian: sport
• → Luxembourgish: Sport
• → Serbo-Croatian: šport / шпорт
• → Slovak: šport
• → Slovene: šport
• → Lower Sorbian: sport
• → Upper Sorbian: sport

Further reading

• “Sport” in Duden online
• “Sport”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)

Luxembourgish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Sport, from English sport.

Noun

Sport m (uncountable)

1. exercise, sport

Derived terms

• Sportaart
• sportlech

Further reading

• Sport in the Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire