means amusement or entertainment as Rosalind initially uses it, the word also means to have physical contact with someone or even to have sexual contact with someone. Thus, although Celia agrees to sport (to joke) about men, she does not wish to sport (to have sex) with men because that would lead her to disgrace and dishonor.
Celia then suggests that instead of love, they should discuss Fate:
Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally. (26-27)
During the Middle Ages, Fortune (or Fate) was personified as a woman who spun her Wheel of Fortune to determine the fate of every individual. Fortune or Fate was all a matter of chance, then. The wheel was not controlled by any logic or thought. Life was difficult for most people during the Middle Ages (and the Renaissance), and most people saw Fortune as a bringer of adversity and misfortune.
In Celia’s poetic depiction of Fortune, she is humorously described or personified as a housewife sitting at a spinning wheel; and the cloth that she spins (“her gifts) represents the allotments of fate that she bestows upon mankind. Celia ironically uses the word good to describe Fortune, for Fortune is rarely good to anyone. Rather, her gifts (good fortune) are distributed unfairly among people; and people who receive good fortune rarely deserve them.
Shakespeare strongly believed in the force of