a. Sc. Obs. [f. SPORT sb.1 + -SOME.] Amusing, diverting, sportive.

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1533.  Bellenden, Livy, I. ii. (S.T.S.), I. 19. Be þis evander was institute ane sportsum play, þat ȝoung men suld ryn nakit … to wourschip pan Liceus. Ibid., I. xvi. 90. In þe mene tyme ane of þame begouth to schaw and sportsum fabil.

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