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Webster 1913 Edition
Sporting
Sport′ing
,Adj.
Of, pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sports; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports.
Sporting book
, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like.
C. Kingsley.
– Sporting house
, a house frequented by sportsmen, gamblers, and the like.
– Sporting man
, one who practices field sports; also, a horse racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like.
– Sporting plant
(Bot.)
, a plant in which a single bud or offset suddenly assumes a new, and sometimes very different, character from that of the rest of the plant.
Darwin.
Definition 2024
Sporting
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See also: Sporting
English
Verb
sporting
- present participle of sport
Adjective
sporting (comparative more sporting, superlative most sporting)
- (not comparable) Pertaining to sports
- He got a job in a sporting goods store.
- (comparable) Exhibiting sportsmanship.
- Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself.
- (comparable) Having a reasonable chance of success.
- You think he has a sporting chance? I wouldn't call even him a long shot!
- (comparable) Fair, generous; ‘game’.
- It was very sporting of her to let us off like that.
Derived terms
- sporting goods
- sporting house
- sporting chance
Translations
exhibiting sportsmanship
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having a reasonable chance of success
Noun
sporting (plural sportings)
- The act of taking part in a sport.
- Philip Schaff
- […] the unprofitable plays, frivolous recreations, sportings, and gamings which are invented to pass away the precious time, and divert the mind from the witness of God […]
- Philip Schaff