sportive

English edit

From sport +‎ -ive.

sportive (comparative more sportive, superlative most sportive)

(archaic) lively; merry; spritely
- c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
  Is it I
  That drive thee from the sportive court?
Playful, coltish.
Interested in sport.
Sporty, good at sport.

gay, frolicsome, merry — see merry

playful, coltish — see playful

interested in sport

good at sport — see sporty

sportive (plural sportives)

(cycling) Synonym of cyclosportive
- 2012 July 15, Richard Williams, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track‎^[1], Guardian Unlimited:
  Such incidents, part of the cherished mythology of the Tour's early years, are rare in modern cycling, although a 62-year-old local councillor was arrested and subsequently released after tacks had been scattered during the 2009 Etape Caledonia, a sportive held on closed roads in Scotland, causing countless punctures among the 3,500 riders.