The phrase "a sportive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is related to sports or physical activities, often in a playful or lively manner.
Example: "The event was a sportive gathering, filled with games and friendly competitions among the participants."
Alternatives: "an athletic" or "a sports-related".
The leshy is a sportive spirit who enjoys playing tricks on people, though when angered he can be treacherous.
Commuting, touring, riding a sportive or occasional race, I've always thought about riding two wheels as akin to running.
Wrestling probably originated in hand-to-hand combat, and in particular as a sportive form of combat substituting the submission of a contestant for his death.
The tricky canons of the first movement make a sportive display of creative prowess, and there are moments of suppleness suggesting popular song.
More a trove of perennially handy clichés than an expressive cinematic idiom, antic facetiousness is pretty much all they're good for, and the audience's relationship to them can't be anything other than a sportive one.
They were accused by some of trying to turn the ride in to a sportive, cutting up people as they overtook people and jeering at them for being too slow.
(Their love scenes are played tenderly -- the one area where the movie takes itself seriously.) Katharine Towne, a new young actress with a sly, sportive spark, plays Sinead, one of the female campers, with a doleful demeanor that she lampoons mercilessly.
Ms. Lyonne delivers a real performance in her little girl's croak of a voice, as do Clea DuVall as the requisite tough girl and Katharine Towne, who plays a doleful camper with a sly, sportive spark.
It can be daunting riding close to other riders in a group for the first time – whether that's on a club ride or maybe a cycle sportive – so ride at the back to begin with and watch how more experienced riders behave.
People could enjoy dancing as a playful, sportive activity rather than as an exercise of courtly etiquette.
Sporting a golden mini-tunic and a dark, curly wig, Cumming proceeds to give us a Dionysus who, while of divine origin, has adopted a flirty, sportive, sexually equivocal human form.
