sporting
adjective
1. exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play
- a sporting solution of the disagreement
- sportsmanlike conduct
Similar word(s): fair, just, clean, sportsmanlike, sporty
2. relating to or used in sports
- sporting events
- sporting equipment
3. involving risk or willingness to take a risk
- a sporting chance
- sporting blood
Similar word(s): adventuresome, adventurous
4. preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance
- sporting gents and their ladies
Similar word(s): indulgent, betting, dissipated
Sentences with sporting as an adjective:
- He got a job in a sporting goods store.
- Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself.
- You think he has a sporting chance? I wouldn't call even him a long shot!
- It was very sporting of her to let us off like that.
noun
1. The act of taking part in a sport.
verb
1. present participle of sport