sporting

See also: Sporting

English

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tɪŋ

Verb

sporting

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) present participle of sport

Adjective

sporting (comparative more sporting, superlative most sporting)

1. (not comparable) Pertaining to sports

   He got a job in a sporting goods store.

2. (comparable) Exhibiting sportsmanship.

   Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself.

3. (comparable) Having a reasonable chance of success.

   You think he has a sporting chance? I wouldn't call even him a long shot!

4. (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

pertaining to sports

• Finnish: urheilu- (fi)
• Latvian: sportisks
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• Polish: sportowy (pl) m

exhibiting sportsmanship

• Dutch: sportief (nl)
• Finnish: urheilijamainen, reilu (fi)
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having a reasonable chance of success

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Noun

sporting (plural sportings)

1. 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 […]