more sportive

And is there a consciousness more sportive and splendid than Tom Stoppard’s?

From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2018

The air was clear and invigorating; I was feeling braced up and buoyant; and as for Jip and Bang, I never saw them in a more sportive, energetic mood.

From Betty Grier by Joseph Laing Waugh

With more harmonious tones, more sportive fire Beneath her hand arise the potent strains.

From Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace by Anna Seward

I speak not of their commercial enterprise and its gross equipage, but of ice-fishing in its more sportive and desultory form, as it is pursued by country boys and the incorrigible village idler.

From Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things by Henry Van Dyke

In English literature Dryden is the writer who most recalls him, though rather in his higher than in his more sportive moods.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell