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Sporting

//ˈspɔɹtɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to sports not-comparable

    "He got a job in a sporting goods store."

  2. 2
    Exhibiting sportsmanship. comparable

    "Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself."

  3. 3
    Fair, generous; game. comparable

    "It was very sporting of her to let us off like that."

  4. 4
    Of or relating to unseemly male excesses, especially gambling, prostitution, or similar recreational activities. not-comparable, obsolete

    "New Yorkers coined the term “sporting culture” to identify the boisterous male culture then on display on the city's streets."

Adjective
  1. 1
    involving risk or willingness to take a risk wordnet
  2. 2
    exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play wordnet
  3. 3
    preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance wordnet
  4. 4
    relating to or used in sports wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The act of taking part in a sport.

    "[…] 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 […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of sport form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

By surface analysis, sport + -ing.

Etymology 2

By surface analysis, sport + -ing.

Etymology 3

By surface analysis, sport + -ing.

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