Couch potato carrying wife around for sociable sport (5)
I believe the answer is:
bowls
'sociable sport' is the definition.
'bowls' can be an answer for 'sport' (thesaurus). I am not certain of the 'sociable' bit.
'couch potato carrying wife around' is the wordplay.
'couch potato' becomes 'slob' (I've seen this before).
'carrying' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'wife' becomes 'w'.
'around' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'slob' placed around 'w' is 'slwob'.
'slwob' reversed gives 'BOWLS'.
'for' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for bowls that I've seen before include "Game; vessels" , "They're rolled towards jack" , "Lawn game" , "Containers for fruit" , "Kitchen vessels" .)