rare. [f. SPORT v. + -ANCE.] Sport, play; sportive or frolicsome activity.
c. 1440. Cast. Persev., 141, in Macro Plays. Dere Frendys, we thanke ȝou of all good dalyaunce & of all ȝoure specyal sportaunce.
1584. Peele, Arraignm. Paris, I. iii. The rounde in a circle our sportance must be; Holde handes in a hornepype, all gallant in glee.
1891. F. Thomson, Sister-Songs (1895), 45. Where sprites of so essential kind Set their paces, Surely they shall leave behind The green traces Of their sportance in the mind.
