Sportive

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Tending to, engaged in, or provocative of, sport; gay; frolicsome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court? - Shak.

Adj.	1.	sportive - relating to or interested in sports
	2.	sportive - given to merry frolicking; "frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes" Synonyms: coltish, frolicky, frolicsome, rollicking

animated, antic, arch, blithe, buoyant, capering, capersome, cavorting, coltish, devilish, elfish, elvish, exuberant, foolish, frisky, frolicsome, full of beans, full of mischief, gamesome, gay, gleeful, hearty, high-spirited, impish, kittenish, knavish, larkish, light-hearted, lively, merry, mischief-loving, mischievous, playful, prankish, pranksome, pranky, puckish, roguish, rollicking, rollicksome, rompish, scampish, scapegrace, skittish, spirited, sportful, sprightly, trickish, tricksy, tricky, vital, vivacious, waggish, zestful, zippy