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