sportive

From sport +‎ -ive.

sportive (comparative more sportive, superlative most sportive)

1. gay; frolicsome; merry
   • Shakespeare

     Is it I
     That drive thee from the sportive court?

2. Playful, coltish.
3. Interested in sport.
4. Sporty, good at sport.

sportive (plural sportives)

1. (cycling) cyclosportive
   • 2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track

     Such incidents, part of the cherished mythology of the Tour's early years, are rare in modern cycling, although a 62-year-old local councillor was arrested and subsequently released after tacks had been scattered during the 2009 Etape Caledonia, a sportive held on closed roads in Scotland, causing countless punctures among the 3,500 riders.

• overtips, pivoters, repivots, sorptive, tip overs

sportive

1. feminine singular of sportif

sportive f (plural sportives)

1. sportswoman

• “sportive” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

sportive

1. inflection of sportiv:
   1. strong and mixed nominative and accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative and accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine and neuter singular

• Rhymes: -ive

sportive f pl

1. feminine plural of sportivo

sportive f

1. plural of sportiva

• previsto, proviste