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disportingverbpresent participle of disport to cause (someone) to pass the time agreeably occupieddisported themselves with silly games while they waited in the airport amusing, diverting, entertaining, regaling, solacing absorbing, busying, distracting, engaging, engrossing, immersing, interesting, involving, occupyingbeguiling, bewitching, captivating, charming, delighting, enchanting, enthralling, fascinatinggripping, hypnotizing, intriguing, mesmerizingcoddling, gratifying, humoring, indulging, mollycoddling, pampering, pleasing, pleasuring, spoilingappeasing, comforting, conciliating, consoling, contenting, mollifying, obliging, pacifying, placating, propitiating, soothing boring, jadingdraining, enervating, exhausting, fatiguing, tiring, wearing, wearing out, wearyingaggravating, annoying, bothering, bugging, chafing, disturbing, exasperating, fretting, galling, grating, harassing, harrying, irking, nettling, peeving, perturbing, pestering, piquing, upsetting, vexing to engage in activity for amusementa full-service resort where vacationers may disport at a variety of indoor and outdoor activities dallying, frolicking, playing, recreating, rollicking, skylarking, sporting, toying cavorting, frisking, gamboling(or gambolling), rompingdabbling, triflingamusing, diverting, entertainingdelighting, pleasingdabbling, fiddling (around), messing around, puttering (around)bumming (around), dawdling, goldbricking, hanging, hanging about(British), idling, loafing, lounging (around or about), relaxing, resting, screwing around, slacking (off)jesting, joking, teasing drudging, laboring, plodding, plugging (away), slaving, straining, striving, struggling, sweating, toiling, working to play and run about happilythe puppies disported in the backyard while we ate on the patio capering, cavorting, frisking, frolicking, gamboling(or gambolling), larking, rollicking, romping, sporting bounding, hopping, leaping, loping, skipping, springing, tripping, tumblingcurvetting(or curveting), dancing, prancingcarousing, reveling(or revelling), roisteringcarrying on, fooling around, horsing aroundclowning, cutting upjoyriding, roughhousing, skylarkingkiting cutting capers, kicking up one's heels moping, pouting, stewing, sulking to present so as to invite notice or attentionfootball fans triumphantly disported the sports memorabilia for which they had just paid extravagant prices displaying, exhibiting, exposing, flashing, flaunting, laying out, parading, producing, showing, showing off, sporting, strutting, unveiling brandishing, flourishing, wavingadvertising, airing, announcing, blazing, broadcasting, heralding, placarding, posting, proclaiming, publicizing, sounding, trumpetingdivulging, talking (about), telling (of)baring, discovering, revealing, uncloaking, uncovering, unmasking camouflaging, disguising, maskingconcealing, covering, curtaining, enshrouding, hiding, obscuring, occluding, occulting, shrouding, veiling |