Sport·ive a. Tending to, engaged in, or provocative of, sport; gay; frolicsome; playful; merry.
Is it I
That drive thee from the sportive court? --Shak.
-- Sport*ive*ly, adv. -- Sport*ive*ness, n.
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sportiveness
n : lively high-spirited playfulness [syn: friskiness, frolicsomeness]