Definitions for: Sportive

[adj] given to merry frolicking; "frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes"
[adj] relating to or interested in sports

Webster (1913) Definition: Sport"ive, a.
Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay;
froliscome; playful; merry.

Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court?
--Shak.
-- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n.

Synonyms: coltish, frolicky, frolicsome, playful, rollicking