make sport of

verb make sport of

• joke — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
• bother — If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
• tease — to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
• pretend — to cause or attempt to cause (what is not so) to seem so: to pretend illness; to pretend that nothing is wrong.
• delude — If you delude yourself, you let yourself believe that something is true, even though it is not true.