sporting
See also: Sporting
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈspɔɹtɪŋ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈspɔːtɪŋ/
(file) - (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ˈspo(ː)ɹtɪŋ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ˈspoətɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tɪŋ
Verb edit
sporting
- present participle and gerund of sport
Adjective edit
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) Fair, generous; ‘game’.
- It was very sporting of her to let us off like that.
- (not comparable, obsolete) Of or relating to unseemly male excesses, especially gambling, prostitution, or similar recreational activities.
- 2015, Michael Pierson, “Stephen Spaulding's Fourth of July in New Orleans”, in Slap, Andrew L., Towers, Frank, editors, Confederate Cities: The Urban South during the Civil War Era[1], University of Chicago Press, page 137:
- New Yorkers coined the term “sporting culture” to identify the boisterous male culture then on display on the city's streets.
Derived terms edit
- sporting chance
- sporting clays
- sporting door
- sporting girl
- sporting goods
- sporting house
- sporting lady
- sportingly
- sportingness
- sporting woman
Translations edit
pertaining to sports
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exhibiting sportsmanship
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having a reasonable chance of success
Noun edit
sporting (plural sportings)
- The act of taking part in a sport.
- c. 1675, Robert Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity:
- […] 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 […]