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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

Sporting

See also: sporting

Spanish

Proper noun

Sporting m

  1. Sporting de Gijón, a football team from Gijón, Spain

sporting

sporting

See also: Sporting

English

Verb

sporting

  1. 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

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 []