Sporting

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tɪŋ

Verb

1. Present participle of sport

Full definition of sporting

Adjective

1. (not comparable) Pertaining to sportsHe 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

Noun

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 ...