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Definition of Sporting

1. Adjective. Exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play. "Sportsmanlike conduct"

2. Adjective. Relating to or used in sports. "Sporting equipment"

3. Adjective. Involving risk or willingness to take a risk. "Sporting blood"

4. Adjective. Preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance. "Sporting gents and their ladies"

Definition of Sporting

1. a. Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports.

Definition of Sporting

1. Verb. (present participle of sport) ¹

2. Adjective. (not comparable) Pertaining to sports ¹

3. Adjective. (comparable) Exhibiting sportsmanship. ¹

4. Adjective. (comparable) Having a reasonable chance of success. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sporting

1. sport [v] - See also: sport

Medical Definition of Sporting

1. Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; 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. 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, 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sporting

sportfisherman sportfishermen sportfishing sportfishings sportful sportfull sportfully sportfulness sportfulnesses sportier

sportiest sportif sportily sportiness sportinesses sporting (current term) sporting chance sporting dog sporting goods sporting house

sporting houses sporting lady sporting life sporting man sportingly sportive sportively sportiveness sportivenesses sportless

Literary usage of Sporting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sportby C. M. van Stockum by C. M. van Stockum (1914)
"The sporting adventures of mi. Popple: chronicled and illustrated, obi. folio. 1898. ... Mr. Sponge's sporting Tour with 90 illustr. by John Leech. 1903. ..."

2. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes, Henry George Bohn (1865)
"1792-6, IL Us. 6d. Sotheby's, in May, 1822, 57 vols. 1792—1821. 2U. 10s. In 1846 the sporting Magazine was united with the NEW sporting MAGAZINE, ..."

3. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1865)
"Afterwards incorporated with the sporting Magazine, but still published with its ... Afterwards united with the sporting Review, the New sporting, ..."

4. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"sporting Times. To chuck or chuck up, to give up the game or attempt, from the custom of throwing up the sponge at a prize fight. ..."

5. The English Catalogue of Books by Sampson Low (1901)
"2s. rtd. net FITZGIBBON, Apr. 00 sporting Alphabet, The, Corbould, 25s. net . ... Junt 99 sporting Fixtures, Badminton Diary, Is Dec. 99 sporting Guns and ..."

6. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"The London weekly papers are literary, or political, or sporting, or fashionable, or agricultural, or commercial, or blackguard. To these may be added class ..."

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