disportverb
uk/dɪˈspɔːt/us/dɪˈspɔːrt/old-fashioned or humorousdisport yourself
to enjoy yourself, especially by doing physical activity
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Celebrating & entertaining
- a good time was had by all idiom
- amuse
- amused
- bacchanalian
- banquet
- entertaining
- go to town idiom
- have a whale of a time idiom
- host
- kill
- kill the fatted calf idiom
- let your hair down idiom
- perform
- push
- revelry
- scintillate
- see in the New Year idiom
- spirit
- take sb out of himself/herself
- town
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Examples from literature
- A party of boys disported themselves noisily on the range of stone posts that form a bodyguard round the ancient lamp-surmounted pump, but otherwise the place was wrapped in dignified repose suited to its age and station.
- In the distant water a large number of animals are disporting themselves.
- It happened that my brother and myself were disporting ourselves in certain fields near the good town of Canterbury.
- On Sunday afternoons all the bourgeois world of our ville disports itself upon the jetty.
- The latter took little notice, and slowly wended his way through the extensive park, in whose magnificent old trees monkeys were disporting themselves.