Engage in a sport — risk a wet outcome (5-3)
I believe the answer is:
water-ski
'engage' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are verbs in their base form.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'a sport risk a wet outcome' is the wordplay.
'sport' indicates putting letters inside (inserted letters wear or 'sport' others).
'outcome' is an anagram indicator (I've seen 'outcome of' mean this).
'risk'+'wet'='riskwet'
'riskwet' anagrammed gives 'wterski'.
'a' placed into 'wterski' is 'WATER-SKI'.
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for water-ski that I've seen before include "Get towed behind a motorboat" , "Tweak sir (anag)" , "Item used in aquatic sport" , "Aquatic sport accessory" , "Engage in aquatic sport" .)