Past tense of sport
regular verb
The past tense of sport is sported. The past participle is also sported.
Forms of sport
| Base form (V1) | sport /spɔːt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | sported |
| Past participle (V3) | sported |
| Present participle | sporting /ˈspɔɹtɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | sports /spɔːɹts/ |
Sported in a sentence
- He was especially happy to see one of the most important discoveries make it to the screen: dinosaurs that sported feathers.2023 June 3, Carl Zimmer, “How Did Birds First Take Off?”, in The New York Times
- There he locked it up in a drawer, sported the doors of both sets of rooms, and retired to bed.1904, M. R. James, The Mezzotint
- His truck sported a heavy-duty hitch for his boat.From the entry hitch
- He sported away the entire fortune!From the entry sport away
- Thanks to social media getting all nostalgic on Throwback Thursdays, everyone knows you once sported a mullet.2015, Scott Kleinberg, So Social, →ISBN. From the entry Throwback Thursday
Meaning of sport
- noun Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
- noun A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
- noun Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
Questions about the past tense of sport
- What is the past tense of sport?
- The past tense of sport is sported.
- What is the past participle of sport?
- The past participle of sport is sported.
- Is sport a regular or irregular verb?
- Sport is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sport (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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