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  • verb Present participle of disport.

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Examples

  • BALDER: He is busy disporting with his Valkyries in Valhalla.

    Robert Brenner: A Thor Subject Robert Brenner 2011

  • BALDER: He is busy disporting with his Valkyries in Valhalla.

    Robert Brenner: A Thor Subject Robert Brenner 2011

  • Despite disporting herself like an Amazon in heat in her videos that'll be Sasha Fierce, she is the sort of smiley, uncontroversial figure who'll help Michelle Obama out with a campaign against childhood obesity.

    Beyoncé, Gaga and Adele: why these three girls rule the world (of pop) 2011

  • Hardly had the patter, patter died away when a flock of sea quail rose, and with whistling wings flew away to windward, where members of a large band of whales were disporting themselves, their blowings sounding like the exhaust of steam engines.

    Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan 2010

  • Later in the 1970s, he became a familiar Fleet Street figure, disporting himself in bars and restaurants and settling into a literary set that included Fenton, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Clive James and others.

    Christopher Hitchens obituary 2011

  • Hardly had the patter, patter died away when a flock of sea quail rose, and with whistling wings flew away to windward, where members of a large band of whales were disporting themselves, their blowings sounding like the exhaust of steam engines.

    Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan 2010

  • Despite disporting herself like an Amazon in heat in her videos that'll be Sasha Fierce, she is the sort of smiley, uncontroversial figure who'll help Michelle Obama out with a campaign against childhood obesity.

    Beyoncé, Gaga and Adele: why these three girls rule the world (of pop) 2011

  • Yes, it can? though it seems a bygone age, now the Daily Mail is back to chuntering that Wayne is disporting himself in Dubai in a manner offensive to those suffering in Austerity Britain.

    Let's hear it for the media's army of Wayne Rooney shrinks Marina Hyde 2010

  • In the British popular imagination, Mustique became synonymous with decadence, with the likes of Mick Jagger and David Bowie disporting themselves at torchlit revels.

    Master of Mustique Built Jet-Set Haven 2010

  • Hardly had the patter, patter died away when a flock of sea quail rose, and with whistling wings flew away to windward, where members of a large band of whales were disporting themselves, their blowings sounding like the exhaust of steam engines ....

    The woe of an aspiring genius. 2008

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