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#: ''It was very '''sporting''' of her to let us off like that.''
#: ''It was very '''sporting''' of her to let us off like that.''
# {{lb|en|not comparable}} (''obsolete'') Of or relating to [[unseemly]] male [[excess]]es, especially gambling, prostitution, or similar recreational activities.
# {{lb|en|not comparable}} (''obsolete'') Of or relating to [[unseemly]] male [[excess]]es, especially gambling, prostitution, or similar recreational activities.
#: "''New Yorkers coined the term 'sporting culture' to identify the boisterous male culture then on display on the city's streets.''"<ref>{{cite | title=Confederate Cities: The Urban South during the Civil War Era | editor=Slap, Andrew L.; Towers, Frank | publisher=University of Chicago Press | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vAGuCgAAQBAJ | page=137}}</ref>
#* {{quote-book|2015|Michael Pierson|Confederate Cities: The Urban South during the Civil War Era||137|New Yorkers coined the term “'''sporting''' culture” to identify the boisterous male culture then on display on the city's streets.|chapter=Stephen Spaulding's Fourth of July in New Orleans|editors=Slap, Andrew L.; Towers, Frank|publisher=University of Chicago Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vAGuCgAAQBAJ}}


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Revision as of 08:15, 19 January 2018

See also: Sporting

English

Pronunciation

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.
  5. (not comparable) (obsolete) Of or relating to unseemly male excesses, especially gambling, prostitution, or similar recreational activities.
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Translations

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 […]

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