1 enjoying sport or relating to sport:
He is the least sportive of men.
2 a cycling event in which a large number of riders travel a long distance on a marked route on public roads, and the time they take is recorded:
A sports car belongs to a category of car that is unmistakably sportive.
Sports cars have typical volume characteristics, as was explained at the beginning of the section, whereas a car might be defined as sportive mainly because of its treatment and graphics.
Even though financial troubles kept plaguing the club, recent years have seen a slow but steady return to financial health, with sportive successes following suit.
Commemorative insignia (pins) are created for each festival and are sold as pass-tickets to the museum and sportive manifestations for the whole duration of it.
The increase of tourism and the sportive activities in contact with nature, have driven this industry in a municipality with a long touristic tradition.
Downhill mountain bikers and amateur sportive cyclists normally wear helmets, and helmet use is enforced in professional cycle sport and in a few legal jurisdictions.
The small-toothed sportive lemur is solitary and eats leaves, fruits, and flowers.
Unlike the woolly lemurs, sportive lemurs have prominent ears, and they lack the white patches usually found on the thighs of woolly lemurs.
