gleeful vs sportive

gleeful

adj

  • Exuberantly or triumphantly joyful. 

sportive

adj

  • Playful, coltish. 

  • Interested in sport. 

  • Sporty, good at sport. 

noun

  • cyclosportive 

How often have the words gleeful and sportive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )