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| | Sports from the Past and the Present with a Global Perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | From about 1400, sporte meant a pleasant pastime, amusement, diversion; shortened from an earlier dysporte from about 1303; and borrowed from Anglo-French disport, from Old French desport meaning a pastime, recreation, pleasure, from desporter to divert, to amuse (one-self), to please, and to play. |
 | | Another word that dictionaries refer to as contributing to the origin of the word “sport” is disport which was borrowed from Old French desporter, literally, “to carry away”, as of the attention from serious matters (des- “away”, from Latin dis-, + porter “to carry or to bear”, from Latin portare. |
 | | Sports Past: Arena, Part 1, describing the blood, sweat, tears, and killing in Roman "entertainment arenas". |
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