Adjective:

क्रीड़ा-शील, क्रीड़ा करनेवाला, खिलाड़ी, विनोदी,

sportive's Usage Examples:

I no longer wished to contend with all that excess of anxiety which had always afflicted me, prior to any sportive competition.

The sportive lemurs are smallish grey-brown creatures with a small round head, flattish face, sticky-out round ears and a long bushy tail.

sportive children, and cricketers in white flannels prepared for their friendly rivalry.

sportive competition.

sportive lemurs are smallish grey-brown creatures with a small round head, flattish face, sticky-out round ears and a long bushy tail.

The All-Father, even at his best, among the Kurnai, Kamilaroi and Euahlayi, is the centre of many grotesque and sportive myths.

Occasionally a scribe of the old times indulged us fancy in ~ sportive oi~ mystetious writing, either inventing new signs or employing old ones in unusual meanings.

The sportive lemurs (Lepidolemur) are smaller than the typical species of Lemur, and the adults generally lose their upper incisors.

he was emphatically a modern gentleman, of scrupulous courtesy, sportive gaiety, acquainted with what was going on in the world, taking a real interest in it, giving and getting information, very neatly dressed, with a shrewd common sense always alive about him, in a modern room with modern furniture, plain, it is true, but with no marks of poverty about it - in a word, with all the ease, the gracefulness, the polish of a modern gentleman of good birth, considerable accomplishments, and a very various information."

Many of the wilder myths are the expressions of the sportive and humorous faculties.

Synonyms:

frolicsome, playful, frolicky, coltish, rollicking,

Antonyms:

playfulness, fun, sober, serious, unplayful,