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1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 84 When she the weeds Troian dyd marck, and sporte breder old bed.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Badin,..a Iugler, Tumbler, or any such sport-maker.

a1625 J. Fletcher Womans Prize i. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Nnnnn^v/2 What a grief of heart is't,..to lie and tell The clock o'th longs, to rise sport-starv'd?

1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd xii. 137 O troublesome and sport-hindring doores.

1750 ‘Beelzebub’ Sure Guide to Hell 62 You must be the Sport-maker for him and his Companions.

?1790 Liverpool Songster 171 See the sport loving high mettled steed spurn the ground.

1858 A. Mayhew Paved with Gold 103 The sport-loving gent.

1861 G. H. Kingsley in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 124 Two or three birds,..affording no sport themselves, and not permitting any sport-affording bird to approach their haunts.

1865 London Society Dec. 448/1 The sport-loving traveller would frequently indulge in what we should call a decidedly sensational pastime, which he called ‘blackbird shooting’. But this sort of thing is all of the past now.

1895 Daily News 21 Jan. 7/7 Five dozen..of these sport-giving fish [i.e. perch].

1897 Outing 29 343/2 Four sport-loving young women.

1929 Daily Express 12 Jan. 3 To-day the thoughts of sport-lovers will be spread over thirty-two battle-grounds, where the third round of the F.A. Cup competition will be fought.

1960 V. Jenkins Lions Down Under vii. 103 The people of Christchurch are extremely sport-minded.

2000 P. A. Horton in J. A. Mangan & J. Nauright Sport in Australasian Soc. iv. 66 In the twentieth century DH Lawrence believed Australia to be a vast land devoid of speech and inhabited by sport-obsessed barbarians.