disport

We don’t often wonder about the names of the places where we disport ourselves.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2022

Other than: may all would-be statesmen disport themselves with the casual larceny of a guy who knows if you don’t let the legal papers physically touch you, then they haven’t been served on you.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 9, 2019

While elsewhere in town, van loads of tourists are being carted around to view houses once inhabited by movie stars gone and long forgotten, at San Vicente Bungalows the live ones disport themselves.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2019

They can enjoy the hot dry weather that followed a spring of relentless rain and fog here and disport themselves in public with an apparent ease that seems singularly Italian.

From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2012

Hundreds of them disport themselves here in summer, though in winter they usually migrate.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams

The fastest man on the planet disports himself like a gentleman amateur.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 6, 2012

The most telling deserter from Wilhelmina was Patti Hansen, who disports her form in Calvin Klein jeans and has just finished acting in Peter Bogdanovich's film They All Laughed.

From Time Magazine Archive

They include a Long Island vampire expert, a California professor of frog psychology and a Virginia doctor who disports himself in a clown's nose and goofy hats and refuses to charge his patients.

From Time Magazine Archive

An inhabitant of the household disports in the portable bathtub while his mate fries a fish over the gas jet.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the court a lord of074 misrule was appointed, who reigned during the whole of this period, and was called 'the master of merry disports.'

From Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by Dawson, William Francis

"He certainly could be, and it would be a question of how far out he goes, how far he reaches, how disported he gets," Dean replied.

From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2023

In the business of turning steel, glass and concrete into places where Americans worked and disported themselves, he and his company were known for projects not only in New York but also across the country.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2016

Even as the Puritans were striving to build an austere theocracy in New England, they were defied by a character named Thomas Morton, whose Merry Mount colonists disported themselves in free-spirited revelry.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2014

And a smaller segment of those selfsame shiny fashion people disported itself, tipping Champagne flutes and hovering over a table of luscious cakes with the cold-eyed hunger of sharks around a diver’s cage.

From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2012

She liked him, and had found him more interesting than most of the young men in whose company she had disported herself.

From Abington Abbey A Novel by Marshall, Archibald

He demonstrated his ability to accurately transcribe a barely-legible original manuscript of Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” by disporting his skills in paleography, the study of ancient and antiquated writing systems.

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2022

He showed me works he was making: visions of exploding buildings and fantastical beasts disporting themselves in temples and gardens.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2019

Havana’s festive atmosphere has long befuddled visiting American politicians fearful they could be accused of disporting themselves inappropriately in a repressive environment.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2015

“Three long steep hills just west of the town were the mecca of the skiers, with several score disporting themselves there throughout the the afternoon,” a 1937 Somerset Daily American article said.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 27, 2014

When we reached the Shore, the Tide was low, & there were Children there disporting themselves with Chum.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson