Sentence examples for sportive form from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

The event will form part of a new look Human Race Sportive Series, which also features the London Cycle Sportive, Chiltern 100 and Wiggle Etape Cymru as well as the newly added Lionheart Cyclosportive.

Wedged between the Ernici and Lepini mountain ranges, the town's football team was formed in 1912 under the guise of Union Sportive Frusinate.

But Vivaldi's hackneyed "Four Seasons" took on new life from the sportive competition among the fiddlers, each soloing in turn as the other three formed the second violin section.

Traits Glasses, brainy, naive, not sportive.

Now the sportive scene has exploded.

Watching RPGs exploding near City Sportive from my balcony.

"The Voice would say: 'Come on, be sportive!

(One paper, alluding to the age difference, described Seward as "amiable, sportive, frisky, foxy").

But there's much to admire in her seamless, sportive transition from canvas to dance floor.