sportive

With trees swaying in the gentle breeze and birds and butterflies gamboling in the setting sun, it would be foolish not to fall into sportive line.

She was strumming her guitar and in the middle of a sportive preamble to the first surprise song of the show.

“With no thought of buying, the eye is sportive and generous; it creates; it adorns; it enhances,” Woolf writes.

Etape Loch Ness is Scotland's largest closed road cycle sportive, taking cyclists on a route around the Loch, finishing in Inverness.

The sportive rhythm of the show doesn’t preclude tragedy.