sportIve

[Eng.sport; -ive.] 1. Tending to or engaged in sport; sportful, merry, gay, frolicsome, playful. "How often have I led thy sportive choir, With tunele pipe, beside the murmuring Loire!" Goldsmith: The Traveler. *2. Amorous, wanton. "I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks." Shakesp.: Richard III ., 1. 1. spört-Ive-ly, adv . [Eng. sportive; -ly.] In a sportive manner; playfully, in sport. "I saw the soft air sportively to take it, And into strange and sundry forms to make it." Drayton: Duke of Suffolk to the French Queen.