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Vinony

sporting

adjective

  1. pertaining to a sport
  2. fair or generous
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈspɔɹtɪŋ/ / /ˈspɔːtɪŋ/ / /ˈspo(ː)ɹtɪŋ/

adj

Etymology: By surface analysis, sport + -ing.

  1. Pertaining to sports

    “He got a job in a sporting goods store.”

  2. Exhibiting sportsmanship.

    “Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself.”

  3. Fair, generous; game.

    “It was very sporting of her to let us off like that.”

  4. Of or relating to unseemly male excesses, especially gambling, prostitution, or similar recreational activities.

    “New Yorkers coined the term “sporting culture” to identify the boisterous male culture then on display on the city's streets.”

noun

Etymology: By surface analysis, sport + -ing.

  1. The act of taking part in a sport.

    “[…] 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 […]”

verb

Etymology: By surface analysis, sport + -ing.

  1. present participle and gerund of sport