Pronunciations (8)
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/ˈspɔɹtɪŋ/
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/ˈspo(ː)ɹtɪŋ/
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/ˈspɔːtɪŋ/
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/ˈspoətɪŋ/
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/ˈspɔːtɪnɡ/
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[ˈspɔːtɪŋɡ]
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ˈspɔɹtɪŋ
Pronunciation notes
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ˈspɔːtɪŋ
Pronunciation notes
- GB
Adjective
Pertaining to sports
Usage- not-comparable
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He got a job in a sporting goods store.
Exhibiting sportsmanship.
Usage- comparable
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Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself.
Fair, generous; game.
Usage- comparable
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It was very sporting of her to let us off like that.
Of or relating to unseemly male excesses, especially gambling, prostitution, or similar recreational activities.
Usage- not-comparable
- Obsolete
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New Yorkers coined the term “sporting culture” to identify the boisterous male culture then on display on the city's streets.
Noun
The act of taking part in a sport.
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More examples (1)
[…] 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 […]
Adjective
exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play
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a clean fight
a sporting solution of the disagreement
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sportsmanlike conduct
relating to or used in sports
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sporting events
sporting equipment
involving risk or willingness to take a risk
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a sporting chance
sporting blood
preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance
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led a dissipated life
a betting man
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a card-playing son of a bitch
a gambling fool
sporting gents and their ladies