单词 | sportfest |
释义 | > as lemmassportfest sportfest n. [ < sport n.1 + fest n., probably after German Sportfest (early 20th cent. or earlier)] = sportsfest n. at Compounds 4b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > series of, as public spectacle gamea1387 sports1535 Olympic Games1636 gymkhana1861 meet1893 sportfest1919 summer games1928 sportsfest1953 Commonwealth Games1954 motorkhana1954 1919 Indianapolis Star 16 May 12/2 Entries received here today from Indiana State Normal and Rose Polytechnic Institute caused the total number of athletes who will compete in the I.C.A.L. sportfest Saturday to advance to eighty-six. 1937 W. H. Auden in W. H. Auden & L. MacNeice Lett. from Iceland xi. 147 The sport-fest was a primitive affair. Some part singing..and a swimming race. 2002 Sunday Times (Nexis) 29 Sept. 15 How do you make grown men cry? Oblige them to forgo their Saturday afternoon sportfest for a bout of retail therapy. < as lemmas |
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