sporting

See also: Sporting

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, sport +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

Verb

sporting

  1. present participle and gerund 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) Fair, generous; game.
    It was very sporting of her to let us off like that.
    • 1881, P. Chr. Asbjörnsen [i.e., Peter Christen Asbjørnsen], “A Summer Night in a Norwegian Forest”, in H. L. Brækstad, transl., Round the Yule Log. Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, →OCLC, page 281:
      All the fairy tales of my childhood were conjured up before my startled imagination, and appeared to be realised in the forms which surrounded me; I saw the whole forest filled with trolls, elves, and sporting dwarfs.
  4. (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.

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Translations

Noun

sporting (plural sportings)

  1. 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 […]

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