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

Even the chimney-sweepers are allowed to disport themselves then; so that when that arrives, there’s no knowing what may happen.

From Mirror of the Months by Peter George Patmore

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

From The Guardian ● Aug. 6, 2012

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

In the current picture he is wrecked on a cannibal island, and disports himself amidst the cannibal cancan.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

He disports himself with the infinitely dignified string-quartet, makes it do light and acrobatic things.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld

"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

He had neglected to draw the curtains, and on the blind his suave shadow disported itself in preparation for the night and the next morning.

From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie

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

Each painting features a single frankfurter in a languorous pose — reclining, reading, daydreaming or otherwise passively disporting like a model in a fashion magazine layout.

From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2016

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