Sportively

Sometimes they sportively began to pelt each other with apples, and on other occasions they amused themselves with adorning each other's hair, which they braided in various forms.

Perhaps to treat the matter lightly and sportively would be the course most likely to encourage her to explain it.

"Then you got time, ain't you, to buy a girl a glass o'--" She stopped and winked sportively.

At Zanies last May she sportively bickered with the vocal crowd.